A nerve cell resembles a vast tree with branches that communicate with thousands of other cells. To function, it depends on a ...

This article was originally featured on Knowable Magazine. More than 1.5 billion years ago, a momentous thing happened: Two small, primitive cells became one. Perhaps more than any event—barring the ...

MIT researchers discovered that the genome’s 3D structure doesn’t vanish during cell division as previously thought. Instead, tiny loops called microcompartments remain (and even strengthen) while ...

Scientists say they have built a cell from scratch for the first time that feeds, grows and replicates like a natural cell, a ...