Quantum effects are no longer confined to ultra-cold chips and vacuum chambers. For the first time, researchers are deliberately engineering living cells so that they behave like quantum bits, hinting ...

Each human is a finely tuned orchestra of more than 37 trillion cells. Mapping this little-known world is one of biology’s greatest challenges — and one in which scientists say they just made a ...

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 ...

From the bizarre creatures in the depths of the oceans to the bacteria inside our bodies, all life on Earth consists of cells. But we have only a very rough idea of how even the simplest of those ...

Researchers from Kyushu University have developed an innovative computational method, called ddHodge, that can reconstruct ...

In the battle against type 1 diabetes (T1D), one researcher at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) is leading a ...

Immune cells called B cells make antibodies that fight off invading bacteria, viruses and other foreign substances. During ...

Cell division is an essential process for all life on earth, yet the exact mechanisms by which cells divide during early embryonic development have ...

Just as an Apple Watch monitors your fitness and ChatGPT can customize a healthy meal plan for your specific needs, biomedical researchers could soon be able to leverage the power of artificial ...

A new partnership between the University of Oregon and Southwestern Oregon Community College seeks to allow marine biology students to spend their whole undergraduate academic career on the Oregon ...