Cells are the smallest units of life. But even within the same tissue or organ, they are not all identical. New variations arise continuously during cell proliferation. While genetic mutations ...

Tissue morphogenesis requires the precise control of cell shape and cell dynamics. Cell shape is governed by cell mechanics, which explains how a set of intracellular and extracellular forces ...

When Bruce Levine and his colleagues began attempting to engineer immune cells to fight cancer in the 1990s, few people thought they would succeed. “The wider community was very sceptical ...

Researchers at the National University of Singapore (NUS) have developed a scalable, non-viral technology that efficiently delivers genetic material into human immune cells. The platform ...

Vitamin D supplements might slow cellular aging by preventing the loss of telomeres, DNA sequences at the ends of chromosomes that shorten in old age, a new study suggests. The health effects of t ...

In biology classes from high school through university, I learned that mitochondria are little objects that reside within each cell and serve as “powerhouses,” combining oxygen and food to ...