On a YouTube livestream, Berkeley City College students carefully study the movements of stem cells to observe what they do ...

The mitochondria (center) is part of the cell machinery. (SciePro/Science Photo Library/Getty Images) To properly understand ...

Some layer of confirmation is essential, with additional validation being subjective and depending on the nuances of each biological system. The simplest validation experiments are those which ...

With standard PCR systems, users are required to set a predefined quantity of cycles according to assay and sample-specific factors. Single-cell sequencing tests demand knowledge of the number of ...

Using an innovative combination of biochemical experiments and ultra-high-resolution microscopy, a research team at Kiel ...

Laboratory experiments with cancer cells have revealed two ways in which tumors evade drugs designed to starve and kill them. While chemotherapies successfully treat cancers and extend patients' lives ...

The rise of single-cell sequencing has revolutionized the exploration of drug resistance, revealing the crucial role of cellular heterogeneity in advancing precision medicine. By building ...

Single-cell RNA-seq (scRNA-seq) has spent the past decade maturing into a foundational technology. Over that time, the technology has both laid the foundation for building cell atlases and allowed ...

Two teams of researchers have developed a cell reprogramming technology that converts rogue disease-causing T cells from our immune system into protective T reg cells. These cells help ensure that the ...

A small but enthusiastic group of neuroscientists is exhuming overlooked experiments and performing new ones to explore whether cells record past experiences — fundamentally challenging what memory is ...

Scientists have advanced human-animal chimera research by successfully growing human cells within the organs of mice. This development could bring experts closer to the goal of custom-growing human ...