If the genome is the recipe of life, base pairs are the individual ingredients listed. These chemical structures form DNA,...
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The body is well protected against invading pathogens by barriers such as the skin. But if you injure yourself and...
In a bid to find or refine laboratory research models for cancer that better compare with what happens in living...
Bay Area scientists have captured the real-time electrical activity of a beating heart, using a sheet of graphene to record...
Researchers at the University of Helsinki and the Beatson Institute for Cancer Research in Glasgow have discovered how mutated cells...
A tickle in the nose can help trigger a sneeze, expelling irritants and disease-causing pathogens. But the cellular pathways that...
It's often cancer's spread, not the original tumor, that poses the disease's most deadly risk. "And yet metastasis is one...
Ever since scientists discovered cells under the microscope more than 350 years ago, they have noted that each type of...
Researchers have studied human kidney cells in the lab to examine the effects of COVID-19 on kidney health. The findings...
Cells contain machinery that duplicates DNA into a new set that goes into a newly formed cell. That same class...