From microglia reprogramming to immune cell-based diagnostics, 2025 was a big year for breakthroughs in cell biology.

When killer T cells of our immune system divide, they normally undergo asymmetric cell division (ACD): Each daughter cell ...

Ribosomes—the tiny factories that build proteins in our cells—don't all work with the same efficiency. Researchers from Japan ...

Many biological processes are regulated by electricity—from nerve impulses to heartbeats to the movement of molecules in and ...

One of the biggest risk factors for developing liver cancer is a high-fat diet. A new study from MIT reveals how a fatty diet ...

T his past year, we explored a lot of new cell biology research—from cancer to plants to microbes, and more! It’s hard to ...

Researchers discovered that a long-misunderstood protein plays a key role in helping chromosomes latch onto the right “tracks ...

The study's main contributors include (L-R) graduate student Joshua Shaffer, professor Upasna Sharma, and postdoc Alka Gupta. (Photo by Carolyn Lagattuta) The pioneering research of UC Santa Cruz’s ...

A combination of two supplements — resveratrol and copper — reduced the aggressiveness of tumors in glioblastoma, a type of ...

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