Cells experience many different types of stress, such as starvation or stress caused by too much salt or too high a temperature. Insulin signals respond to such stress signals by sending the protein ...

Ushikuvirus, an amoeba-infecting giant virus, joins the family of giant viruses that may have driven the evolution of complex ...

Although the gut renews itself constantly, its stem cells accumulate age-related molecular changes that quietly alter how ...

A Northwestern Medicine study has revealed a previously unknown connection between two fundamental cellular processes, ...

DNA doesn’t just sit still inside our cells — it folds, loops, and rearranges in ways that shape how genes behave.

Learn how a newly discovered virus disrupts its host’s nucleus in ways that echo how complex cells may have formed billions ...

The origin of life on Earth becomes even more fascinating and complex as we peer into the mysterious world of viruses.

Researchers at Kumamoto University have uncovered a previously unknown molecular mechanism by which human T-cell leukemia ...

The fossilized backbones of what appeared to be woolly mammoths have turned out to come from an entirely different and unexpected animal.

Autolus Therapeutics, a commercial-stage biopharmaceutical company, has announced plans to assess the feasibility of Cellares ...

Giant DNA viruses that infect eukaryotic cells are thought to have played a role in the evolution of life, according to the ...