Flexoelectricity, which can transform mechanical deformation into electrical signals, could provide enough power to fire ...

For decades, weight loss drugs have tried to coax the body into burning more energy, but the most aggressive approaches have ...

Bar-Ilan University study shows that even jellyfish and sea anemones repair DNA during repose, underscoring the idea that a ...

For the first time, scientists have answered a longstanding question in cell biology about a partnership of proteins called ...

Despite the immense amount of genetic material present in each cell, around 3 billion base pairs in humans, this material needs to be accurately divided in two and allocated in equal quantities. The ...

For the first time, researchers at the University of British Columbia have demonstrated how to reliably produce an important type of human immune cell—known as helper T cells—from stem cells in a ...

Cell division is an essential process for all life on earth, yet the exact mechanisms by which cells divide during early ...

We already knew forests were heavy lifters in reducing climate pollution. New research reveals the tiny microbes in tree bark ...

Victoria Gray spent 34 years battling the debilitating pain of sickle cell disease. Then she volunteered to be the world's ...

Scientists may have found a safer way to make cells burn more calories—by turning up the heat inside our cellular power plants.