Purity” is one of the many myths of perfection, suggesting that absolute conformity is the only way to produce supreme value.

Gene editing has emerged as a powerful approach for targeting the genetic causes of disease, but getting the editing ...

Chemotherapy kills cancer cells, but it also leaves behind something troubling: damaged cells that stop dividing yet refuse ...

Cells constantly probe their environments, searching for physical cues that guide their behavior. And yet a cell's response ...

Immune cells that help to fight off foreign invaders in the body also provide crucial support for muscles during exercise, ...

Even as you read this sentence, the brain cells you are using to process it might be mutating. What if these changes could be ...

Before seedlings can photosynthesize, they depend on fatty acids—and on peroxisomes to process them. Researchers discovered ...

A growing body of research suggests astrocytes, star-shaped brain cells once dismissed as support players, may lead the way ...

Researchers at the School of Medicine at the University of California, Riverside have discovered previously unrecognized ...

Whereas most of the cells in a healthy animal’s body get along by following the same set of genetic rules, cancer cells ...

The average lifespan of a red blood cell is just under four months, while skin cells last about a month and those in the ...