Squeeze a cell once and it barely flinches. Squeeze it again and again in short bursts, and something changes: a protein ...

Advances in genetic engineering have enabled researchers to seek ways to program new life. But has synthetic biology actually ...

A Moffitt Cancer Center researcher has introduced a new model that addresses one of biology's most fundamental questions: How does genetic information keep living systems organized and therefore alive ...

Study finds early-stage ectoderm cells are especially susceptible, raising questions about potential developmental risks ...

Years before he conducted the research that would earn him a Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine, Shinya Yamanaka, MD, ...

For decades, scientists understood inducible nitric oxide synthase, or iNOS, as a one-trick enzyme. Its job was to churn out ...

A new computational study led by University at Buffalo scientists and published April 21 in Biophysical Journal sheds light ...

Cytotoxic T lymphocytes are the body's specialized "killer" cells, precisely eliminating infected or cancerous cells.

Whenever there is a wound or infection, the body produces an inflammatory response. This is the body's first line of defense, ...

Researchers discovered that a long-misunderstood protein plays a key role in helping chromosomes latch onto the right “tracks” during cell division. Instead of acting like a motor, it works more like ...

One of the biggest challenges in cancer research is understanding why some tumor cells become especially aggressive, invasive ...