Vaults are mysterious cellular structures that can be genetically engineered to store information about a cell’s history.

Human cells are extremely small and tightly packed – at about 20 micrometers across, ...

Common gut bacteria use protein delivery systems to interact directly with human cells, reshaping how scientists view the ...

For the first time, clumps of human cells called organoids were fully integrated with the brains of rats—and influenced their behavior.

Researchers recently developed a bone marrow model to study how the body generates cells. Interestingly, this model is the first of its kind to be developed entirely from human cells. Not only can ...

Sneaky parasite evades the human immune system by stripping cells and wearing them as a disguise Parasites are known to infect human cells through a variety of ingenious mechanisms. Many of them have ...

Assessing the toxicity of food contaminants—including carcinogenic potential—is a major challenge in evaluating the risks ...

"The infection of our body cells is like a dance between virus and cell," suggested Yohei Yamauchi at ETH Zurich. With their new system, the team watched how single flu virus particles move across the ...

Creating human eggs from adult cells just got one step closer to reality. A technique used in cloning combined with fertilization and a bit of chemical coaxing caused human skin cells to produce eggs ...

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) said that it will stop funding all research that uses human fetal tissue, ending ...