For decades, biology textbooks and popular science writing repeated a striking claim: bacterial cells in the human body ...

When cells experience sudden physical stress, like stretching or pressure, they can activate a fast, protective mechanism ...

Every 24 hours, the human body manufactures and discards roughly 330 billion cells, a turnover rate that amounts to about one ...

Cells are typically studied outside the body under controlled laboratory conditions. However, conventional flat cell culture ...

Some go gently into the night. Others die less prettily in freak accidents or deadly invasions, or after a showy display. By Amber Dance/Knowable Magazine Published Sep 27, 2024 8:00 AM EDT This ...

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Scientists have discovered why ovarian cancer spreads so rapidly through the abdomen. Cancer cells enlist normally protective abdominal cells, forming mixed groups that work together to invade new ...

Cyanobacteria—ancient microbes that oxygenated Earth and made complex life possible—are still revealing surprises billions of years later. Scientists have now discovered that a molecular system once ...

In an amazing twist of fate, the aggressive cervical cancer tumor that killed Henrietta Lacks, a 31-year old African American mother, became an essential tool that helped the biomedical field flourish ...

Scientists at Johns Hopkins Medicine say they used a form of magnetic imaging to track cell therapy injections commonly used ...