The membrane-bound organelle appears to play a huge role in helping cells sort, discard, and recycle their contents. It's ...

A new structure in human cells has been discovered. The structure is a new type of protein complex that the cell uses to attach to its surroundings and proves to play a key part in cell division.

A Ph.D. graduate student in biomolecular engineering at UC Santa Cruz, with a background in computer science and mathematics, ...

Scientists from the RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research (BDR) have identified key changes to both chromosome ...

Lab-engineered human embryo models created from stem cells provide a look at development beyond the first week. But they raise ethical questions.

To better understand early pregnancy loss without using actual human embryos, scientists employed stem cells to create models that mimic this stage of development ...

In a new study, published today (12 July) in Nature, researchers have produced the most detailed and comprehensive human Heart Cell Atlas to date, including the specialised tissue of the cardiac ...

Scientists have for the first time documenting all of the different cell types and genes expressed in the healthy human heart, in new research published in the journal Nature.

A new type of cell that resides deep within human lungs and may play a key role in human lung diseases has been discovered.