If we asked you to think of a device that converts a chemical reaction into electricity, you’d probably say we were thinking of a battery. That’s true, but there is another device that does this that ...

A new method called Zman-seq, reveals the history of cells and may advance the development of new therapies for cancer and other disorders. Researchers from Ido Amit’s lab at the Weizmann Institute of ...

Genomes can now be used to store information about a variety of transient biological events inside of living cells, as they happen, like a flight recorder collecting data from an aircraft. The method, ...

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

“Expression tells us what cells do, but regulatory DNA tells us where they come from, how they develop, and which germ layer ...

T cells are vital for surveillance within the immune system. They are activated once the T cell receptor (TCR) binds its cognate peptide found in cell surface proteins encoded by the major ...

A parasite that causes malaria is halted by sickle cells and makes people who carry the sickle cell trait more resistant to the disease. This is why sickle cell trait also occurs more in people who ...

Descendants of Henrietta Lacks, the Black woman whose cells have been central to decades of important scientific breakthroughs, settled litigation with a biotech company that had allegedly profited ...

For what would have been Henrietta Lacks’ 103th birthday, her family got her some justice: A settlement with Thermo Fisher Scientific over the Massachusetts-based company’s use of cells obtained ...

Genome scientist Dr. Jay Shendure talking with a colleague in his lab at the University of Washington School of Medicine in Seattle. He is leading an effort to develop technologies like ENGRAM and DNA ...