Weighing a single living cell sounds like a party trick, yet the numbers involved are so small that they push the limits of ...

For centuries, curious observers have been grappling with the question “What is life?” Early naturalists documented observations about the living world long before anyone knew about cells. Their ...

Understanding the human cell is vital to progress in the life sciences and to human health. Cells are the smallest, most basic unit of life responsible for all of life’s processes. A typical human ...

Scientists mapping the human body at the cellular level keep running into the same surprise: beneath the apparent chaos of ...

The most complex engineering of human cell lines ever has been achieved by scientists, revealing that our genomes are more resilient to significant structural changes than was previously thought. The ...