Learn how one-celled organisms, or single-celled organisms, helped build complex life.

Sickle cell disease is caused by a single genetic mutation that alters the shape of red blood cells. While the condition ...

Researchers at Moffitt Cancer Center have developed a new way to predict how cancer cells evolve by gaining and losing whole ...

Key HighlightsResearchers developed a new method to predict how cancer cells evolve by gaining or losing whole chromosomes.

Modern cells are complex chemical entities with cytoskeletons, finely regulated internal and external molecules, and genetic ...

During pregnancy, maternal and fetal cells migrate back and forth across the placenta, with fetal cells entering the mother's ...

A genomic atlas of Nematostella vectensis reveals how primitive animals created multiple cell types millions of years ago, ...

Modern cells are complex chemical entities with cytoskeletons, finely regulated internal and external molecules, and genetic material that determines nearly every aspect of their functioning. This ...

Let’s say it’s 2036, and scientists are working on a new class of drugs. Today, for instance, pharmaceutical companies use ...

Scientists at Nagoya University in Japan have identified the genes that allow an organism to switch between living as single cells and forming multicellular structures. This ability to alternate ...

That’s only one problem. Your immune system also has an adaptive system of specialized immune cells and antibodies that attack and destroy invading microbes. This system remembers what those intruders ...

A small number of cancer cells with the ability to change their identities and behaviors appear to be a key driver of cancer ...