Biologists are quietly rewriting what it means to be alive, and the human body has become one of their strangest frontiers.

Scientists at Duke-NUS Medical School have developed two powerful computational tools that could transform how researchers ...

“Expression tells us what cells do, but regulatory DNA tells us where they come from, how they develop, and which germ layer ...

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Given the right conditions, certain types of cells are able to self-assemble into new lifeforms after the organism they were once part of has died. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

One of the biggest quests in biology is understanding how every cell in an animal's body carries an identical genome yet ...

A growing number of new studies have found that, at least for some cells, death isn’t the end, but the beginning of something wholly unexpected.