Scientists at the Ruđer Bošković Institute (RBI) in Zagreb, Croatia, have discovered that the protein CENP-E, long believed ...

For the past two decades, biology textbooks have described CENP-E as a motor protein that moves along microtubules. The ...

Researchers at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) have developed a remarkable new way for making human body cells ...

That changed in 2014, when Swedish scientists showed that Y loss in blood cells correlates with how long men live – those who ...

Researchers say findings help to bridge the structure of the genome to its function in managing how genes are turned on and off.

A study found that daily vitamin D supplements helped slow telomere shortening—the cellular process linked to aging and ...

An X chromosome gene appears to drive inflammation in the brain, and may explain why women are more likely to develop MS, per ...

Researchers have succeeded in making human skin cells behave like egg cells, though the resulting fertilized embryos run them ...

Scientists are using AI to better predict embryo health in real time.

Motor proteins are tiny "machines" inside cells that use chemical energy to move along molecular tracks and carry out essential processes like chromosome segregation during cell division. When a cell ...

From secret mushroom worlds to extreme close-ups of cell motion, these photographs represent how, in science, things often ...