A single-celled microbe that revels in Earth's most hostile salt lakes has the remarkable ability to transform its mote of a ...

It's no secret that our waistlines often expand in middle-age, but the problem isn't strictly cosmetic. Belly fat accelerates aging and slows down metabolism, increasing our risk for developing ...

It's no secret that our waistlines often expand in middle age, but the problem isn't strictly cosmetic. Belly fat accelerates ...

Researchers at the University of Tsukuba have examined the developmental fate (the future tissue type) of shell-forming cells ...

A new tissue expansion method enables scientists to use mass spectrometry imaging to simultaneously detect hundreds of molecules at the single cell level ... technique will make mass spec imaging ...

That means we’re about to see cell-based bacon strips and meatball patties popping up at select retailers and restaurants—without slaughtering a single animal. For some context, these new pork ...

Researchers have developed a method to extract living cells from feces that they say could help conservationists better ...

That's because sex — and gender roles, too —permeates all the way down to the most unreproductive of cell types. If you want ...

Glycolysis is an ancient metabolic activity. It consists of a set of reactions that convert glucose into energy. This central ...

Billions of animals are killed each year to feed an unsustainable demand for meat. Lab-grown meat—also known as cultured, cultivated, cell-based, or clean ...

The work was made possible through a collaboration between ... they demonstrated that ancient versions of genes found in choanoflagellates, single-celled organisms that share a common ancestor with ...

Under microscopes, scientists found that giant single-cell organisms were able to vacuum up more food when they are stuck together. By Jack Tamisiea For a creature made up of only a single cell ...