Photoreceptors are specialized cells in the eye that convert light energy into neural signals. Several diseases that cause irreversible vision loss, including age-related macular degeneration, ...

One of the most widely accepted models for how cells remember their identity may be incorrect. This is shown in a new study ...

Researchers found that the cells of young adults with depression overproduce energy while resting but struggle to respond to ...

A growing body of experimental work on how single bacteria sense and respond to their environment has reopened a long-standing question in biology and philosophy: can an individual cell be conscious?

Personalized therapies for diabetes, while showing promise in international studies, is met with healthy skepticism from ...

By simulating the life cycle of a minimal bacterial cell—from DNA replication to protein translation to metabolism and cell ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Respiratory viruses, such as the flu and COVID-19, may be able to “wake up” dormant cancer cells in patients who have a history of ...

Northwestern Medicine scientists led by Joseph Bass, MD, Ph.D., the Charles F. Kettering Professor of Endocrinology and ...

The kick-off signal for puberty begins in the brain. Specifically, in the hypothalamus, where specific neurons release a ...

Japan has approved two stem cell-based therapies for treating Parkinson's disease and heart failure in a world first, through ...

Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) isn’t caused by just one faulty switch in the brain; it’s more like a tangled orchestra of genes and cells thrown off-key by trauma. With many genetic players ...