Like all complex organisms, every human originates from a single cell that multiplies through countless cell divisions.

New research from UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center has uncovered an evolutionary change that may explain why certain ...

A University of California, Riverside-led team has made an advance in the basic understanding of Plasmodium falciparum, the ...

Scientists say they captured 3D images of a new organelle they're calling a "hemifusome," which may be a recycling center in ...

Chronic inflammation occurs when the immune system is stuck in attack-mode, sending cell after cell to defend and repair the ...

University of Virginia scientists discover new cell organelle called "hemifusome" that helps manage cellular recycling.

Scientists in Spain and China discovered that HSV-1 begins rewriting the architecture of human genes just one hour after ...

New research by Sumeda Nandadasa, Ph.D., reveals how a key protein associated with Meckel-Gruber syndrome, nephronophthisis, ...

A surprising discovery about how brain cells handle sugar could shift how scientists approach dementia and Alzheimer’s ...

Using 'fission yeast', a single-celled organism that mirrors many of the inner workings of human cells, the research team ...

Boosting the brain’s sugar-clearing switch cuts toxic buildup and may explain why fasting looks good for memory.