A new Dartmouth study opens new avenues for understanding—and potentially manipulating—how cells decide to live or die.

Programmable CRISPR tools are turning stem cell biology into something closer to software engineering, shrinking ...

From microglia reprogramming to immune cell-based diagnostics, 2025 was a big year for breakthroughs in cell biology.

An archaeon reads the same codon in two different ways, overturning a doctrine that has stood for 60 years. Living organisms ...

Syntax Bio, a synthetic biology company programming the next generation of cell therapies, today announced the publication of ...

Why do some children develop a brain that is too small (microcephaly)? An international research team involving the German ...

In recent years, the field of stem cell and developmental biology has seen remarkable breakthroughs that have deepened our understanding of how organisms grow, age and regenerate, with major ...

An international study led by the University of Basel has discovered that nuclear pore complexes—tiny gateways in the nuclear ...

Listen to more stories on the Noa app. The human cell is a miserable thing to study. Tens of trillions of them exist in the body, forming an enormous and intricate network that governs every disease ...

It's well known that stress can trigger hair loss. A new paper explores how this happens and how our response to stress can ...

“Our results reveal a fascinating choreography inside the hair follicle," said paper author professor Inês Sequeira.