A new part of an ocean plant cell has been discovered that might revolutionize farming one day. The structure can take ...

Adverse genetic mutations can cause harm and are due to various circumstances. "Jumping genes" are one cause of mutations, ...

Scientists have found a way to study early embryonic development without real embryos. Using CRISPR, they programmed stem cells to self-organize into structures mimicking early embryos. The cells show ...

Organelles in cells were originally often independent cells, which were incorporated by host cells and lost their ...

There is a trial of strength at the cellular level. Cells are in constant competition with each other and so eliminate ...

Lurking within the genomes of nearly all species--including plants, fungi, and even humans--are genes that are passed from generation to generation with no clear benefit to the organism. Called ...

A research team has developed a groundbreaking deep learning-based method for analyzing the cytoskeleton -- the structural framework inside cells -- more accurately and efficiently than ever before.

DANIEL: This little entity, what appeared at the time to be a little cell, was the oddball source of all that DNA in the ocean. LOCONTE: It means that the two organisms are really living together.

With the long-term goal of creating living cells from non-living components, scientists in the field of synthetic biology ...