During animal cell division, a highly synchronized and tightly regulated dance of chromosomes takes place, ensuring the ...

In a cramped, windowless room on the University of California, Berkeley, campus, two bespoke microscopes—each a Swiss Army ...

Researchers found that smaller cancer cells with doubled DNA often behaved more aggressively than larger ones.

A sequence of high-resolution images showing a cell dividing into three daughter cells, a rare event captured by the MOSAIC ...

Megan Sweet slices tumors. A normal day in the lab finds the Virginia Tech graduate student with hands deep inside a refrigerated metal box, pulling a mounted mouse-grown tumor incrementally closer to ...

Hair, nails, and horns, all made up of keratin, are some of the hardest and most resilient structures in animals. Inside ...

Scientists have solved a decades-old bacterial shape mystery, uncovering a potential new target for antibiotics.

Hair, nails, and horns, all made up of keratin, are some of the hardest and most resilient structures in animals. Inside zebrafish cells, keratin ...

Confocal microscope image of a fruit fly brain. (Louise Cheng) Not every region of your brain is equally susceptible to cancer. Over many decades of treating brain cancer, doctors have noticed ...