Research shows how the curved shape of a zebrafish egg sets cell division timing, gene activation, and early cell fate ...

Humans began sleeping as a way to partly help reduce DNA damage in nerve cells, scientists at Bar-Ilan University in Israel ...

A new study tests whether spent yeast from breweries can supply cellulose scaffolds that support lab-grown meat production.

A new study from Bar-Ilan University shows that one of sleep's core functions originated hundreds of millions of years ago in ...

Having considered localization of respiratory functions in mitochondria and in prokaryotic cells, it's time to return to the eukaryotic context and follow a molecule of pyruvate across the inner ...

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic neurological disease characterized by nerve damage and consequent impairments in vision, ...

In jellyfish and sea anemones, neurons accumulate DNA damage while animals are awake and repair that damage during sleep.

Defecation is commonly treated as a universal feature of animal life, a visible outcome of digestion and metabolic turnover.

Microbes often display cooperative behavior in which individual cells put in work and sacrifice resources to collectively ...

A groundbreaking new study from Bar-Ilan University shows that one of sleep's core functions originated hundreds of millions ...

Sleep may have evolved to help reduce DNA damage in nerve cells long before they became centralized in the brain, a study ...