One of the most well-studied cellular responses is how they react during times of stress, such as when the temperature gets ...

While our cells are performing some important, basic functions, they can generate compounds known as reactive oxygen species ...

It turns out sleeping isn’t just about resting your eyes, as a new study found that even ancient creatures without eyes — or even brains — need it too.

Long before a liver tumor appears, a high-fat diet can push liver cells into a risky survival mode. That is the central ...

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

Long before memory problems appear, your brain may already be losing neurons. That is the unsettling message from new work by ...

Researchers developed two computational tools to decode how cells communicate in tissues. sCCIgen creates realistic virtual ...

A rare genetic variant found in families affected by schizophrenia completely abolishes the function of TAAR1, an emerging ...

Nutritional guidelines released on Wednesday by Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., and the USDA ...

Across all domains of life, immune defenses foil invading viruses by making it impossible for the viruses to replicate. Most known CRISPR systems target invading pathogens' DNA and chop it up to ...

Living cells may generate electricity through the natural motion of their membranes. These fast electrical signals could play ...

Scientists suggest death may not be biologically final at the cellular level. Research shows cells can enter a “third state ...