Elephants are huge, so you might think all those extra cells would mean more cancer, but scientists have some new insights ...

For life to evolve on Earth, a bunch of complex organic molecules had to evolve a way to assemble into cells. So how did ...

UCSF scientists discover that the spindle, the structure that divides chromosomes equally during mitosis, actually gets stronger when it is stretched.

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The image shows a metaphase spindle in a human ovarian cancer cell, surrounded by interphase cells. Microtubules are color-coded according to imaging depth, and chromosomes are shown in gray. Most ...

A young woolly mammoth now known as Yuka was frozen in the Siberian permafrost for about 40,000 years before it was discovered by local tusk hunters in 2010. The hunters soon handed it over to ...

NASSAU COUNTY, Long Island (WABC) -- Hofstra University is celebrating the school's first-ever Rhodes Scholar. Resa Nelson, 21, is a biology major in the class of 2026, who has been working on ...

Researchers are increasingly shifting from simple to complex models to better recapitulate diseases. As they move from immortalized cell lines to more physiologically relevant systems such as ...

Fred Ramsdell, who received a degree in biochemistry and cell biology in 1983, contributed to key discoveries about the human immune system The Nobel Prize Committee has awarded the Nobel Prize in ...

iNKT cells combine T and NK cell features, offering multimechanistic killing pathways that may overcome antigen escape in AML treatment. CAR-iNKT cells are derived from healthy donors, reducing costs ...

At first glance, biology and quantum technology seem incompatible. Living systems operate in warm, noisy environments full of constant motion—while quantum technology often requires extreme isolation ...