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

A team from the Institute of Integrative Cell Biology and Physiology at the University of Münster has now shown that the ...

Imagine if our bodies could grow new organs throughout our entire lives. Plants do this constantly, thanks to tiny, powerful ...

Cells may generate their own electrical signals through microscopic membrane motions. Researchers show that active molecular ...

A growing number of new studies have found that, at least for some cells, death isn’t the end, but the beginning of something wholly unexpected.

A small tweak to mitochondrial energy production led to big gains in health and longevity. Mice engineered to boost a protein that helps mitochondria work more efficiently lived longer and showed ...

Stress affects many systems in our body and biologists Marcel Schaaf and Erin Faught at Radboud University are figuring out how that works. Their recent study showed how stress changes behavior by ...

The illegal animal trade is a global industry estimated to be worth $20 billion, according the United Nations. "CBS Saturday Morning" heads to Yuramaguas, Peru, for a closer look at how the black ...