People communicate with each other, sometimes face to face, sometimes with a text message or phone call. Cells also ...

At first glance, bat sea stars, the nubbly, orange, many-footed creatures often found on the seafloor, seem about as far from humans as one can get. Appearances can be deceiving, however. Scientists ...

Biophysicist Susy Kohout explores how cells respond to electrical cues, shedding light on the connection between cell ...

Bone fracture healing is a dynamic process that relies on coordinated cellular interactions for effective tissue regeneration. We employ optimized spatial transcriptomics to delineate the locations ...

Full-body defense does not always look the way textbooks say it should. In planarian flatworms, a newly identified cell type ...

Microtubules, part of heart muscle cells' internal "skeleton," help determine how the heart changes shape under stress, and a common signaling pathway called the ERK pathway acts as a key controller ...

Cancer cells are remarkably good at adapting to stress. When treatments damage them, they often find new ways to survive, fueling drug resistance and disease progression.

Senescent "zombie" cells are essential architects required to build and maintain the brain's protective barriers.