Animal cell and molecular biology examines how cells are built, how they process information and energy, and how they respond to their physical and chemical environments. At its heart is the cell ...

Transposons, DNA sequences that can self-replicate and move (jump) throughout the genome, are widespread and can affect cell ...

Cancer arises when the normal controls on cell growth, differentiation and death are subverted. Under physiological conditions, cells proliferate only in response to external stimuli, replicate their ...

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 ...

The genetic code appeared on Earth at the origin of life, and the codes of culture arrived almost four billion years later. For a long time it has been assumed that these are the only codes that exist ...

Think back to that basic biology class you took in high school. You probably learned about organelles, those little “organs” inside cells that form compartments with individual functions. For example, ...