The surprising discovery of mysterious blobs inside our cells is revolutionising our understanding of how life works, and how ...

As a PhD student in the 1920s, she moved a lump of cells from embryos of one newt species into another. The transplanted ...

Illustration of an embryo in the early stages of development. (Design Cells/iStock/Getty Images) The first moments of life ...

Cells can spontaneously change shape even without external signals, but the underlying mechanisms behind this form of ...

Gold nanozymes and primitive minerals gradually accelerated Earth's cellular chemistry, leading to the origin of life.

A former surgeon's biology-inspired startup is creating soft robotic cells that could transform how intelligent machines are ...

In recognition of Juneteenth and World Sickle Cell Disease Awareness Day, ImpactLife stressed the importance of transfusions ...

We tend to view ourselves and the complex cells that build us as a distinct branch of the tree of life from the compact, seemingly featureless cells of bacteria and archaea. But we’ve found that our ...

We’re just beginning to decode this faint optical “signature of life” and what it could reveal about health, disease, and the ...

As newborn neurons make their way through the developing brain, they must squeeze through incredibly tight spaces to reach their final destinations. Researchers discovered that this physical journey ...

Researchers at the University of Twente and Utrecht University have packed rigid, rod-shaped particles into soft lipid ...

As a flower bud grows and gains more cells, the random spikes and dips in any one cell matter less to the overall pattern.