Weighing a single living cell sounds like a party trick, yet the numbers involved are so small that they push the limits of ...

Sickle cell disease is a group of inherited blood disorders. It causes red blood cells to take on a crescent (sickle) shape and become rigid. These cells can break apart easily, leading to anemia.

Cells have always hummed with activity. They make their own energy, package it into molecules like ATP, and spend it ...

If you took high school biology, you probably learned about cell division: a crucial process in all life forms officially called mitosis. For over one hundred years, students have learned that during ...

After an allogeneic stem cell transplant, a recipient’s body faces a daunting task: rebuilding the person’s blood-forming and immune systems from the ground up from a relatively small number of “seed” ...

This story is part 2 in a four-part series about cell therapy created by the Fierce Biotech team. Part 1 is available here, part 3 is here and the final installment is here. Gabrielle Masson, Helen ...

A virtual cell modeling system, powered by AI, will lead to breakthroughs in our understanding of diseases, argue the cofounders of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. As the smallest living units, cells ...

Given troves of data about genes and cells, A.I. models have made some surprising discoveries. What could they teach us someday? Credit...Doug Chayka Supported by By Carl Zimmer In 1889, a French ...

Researchers discovered that a long-misunderstood protein plays a key role in helping chromosomes latch onto the right “tracks” during cell division. Instead of acting like a motor, it works more like ...

In the 16th century, the Belgian cartographer Abraham Ortelius created the world’s first modern atlas — a collection of maps that he called “The Theater of the World.” The maps, drawn by Ortelius and ...

In an interview with " Fox & Friends" last week, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. lauded cell phone restrictions in schools, pointing to links between social media use and anxiety and depression.