Calcium signaling plays a fundamental role in cardiac development and function, orchestrating a wide array of cellular processes that are essential for ...

The mitochondrial genome can help researchers map ancestry and better understand the inheritance of mitochondrial diseases.

In the earliest hours after fertilization, an embryo takes its first steps toward becoming a living organism by shedding ...

Researchers just discovered super stem cells capable of resetting themselves back to a stronger, younger version.

Every cell in our body has a sex. But most research so far has focused on our gonads—ovaries or testes—and not on the early ...

It's long been assumed that when a parent cell divides into two daughter cells, the parents assumes a spherical shape, which ...

In the new book Personhood, historian and law professor Mary Ziegler explores how the push to grant embryos and fetuses full ...

New research reveals that cells don't always become round before dividing, challenging over a century of textbook biology.

A new study in Cell reveals that lamina-associated domains (LADs) in early mouse embryos are shaped by dynamic epigenetic ...

Demand for egg freezing has skyrocketed as women put fertility on hold. The costly procedure has brought happy endings to some women, but it doesn't offer any guarantees.

Researchers revealed that mitosis doesn’t always feature cell rounding (when a parent cell becomes spherical), meaning that ...

The eighth batch of scientific samples from China's Tiangong space station, weighing 37.25 kilograms, returned to Earth ...