Cells can spontaneously change shape even without external signals, but the underlying mechanisms behind this form of ...

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Multicellular life depends on remarkable acts of cooperation. Every cell in the human body must sense what is happening ...

People need to sleep, and sleep deprivation can cause many changes in the brain. But we have a poor understanding of why sleep is so crucial. New research has examined a fruit fly model to assess how ...

As 2025 comes to a close, the editors at The Scientist asked researchers to reflect on the biggest breakthroughs in cell biology this year. They named advances in everything from embryo models for ...

A new review argues that aging may not be just a collection of molecular defects, but a progressive drift in cell identity that links inflammation, fibrosis, mitochondrial damage, and tissue decline.

Immune cells called B cells make antibodies that fight off invading bacteria, viruses and other foreign substances. During their preparation for this battle, B cells transiently revert to a more ...

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