Scientists have discovered how cells decide when to respond to physical forces, potentially opening new avenues for tackling diseases such as cancer and fibrosis. The study, led by researchers at King ...

Every cell in the human body squeezes over six feet of DNA into a minuscule speck invisible to the naked eye—like compressing a whole house into a single sugar cube. In order to fit in a cell and ...

Researchers discovered that a long-misunderstood protein plays a key role in helping chromosomes latch onto the right “tracks” during cell division. Instead of acting like a motor, it works more like ...

Scientists in Sweden have taken a major step toward a potential cure for type 1 diabetes by developing a more reliable way to create insulin-producing cells from human stem cells. These lab-grown ...

The best time to get an infection might be after a meal, suggest experiments in mice and humans that found that certain immune cells, known as T cells, seem to get a boost from food. The findings, ...

An Australian startup is building what could become one of the world's first "biological data centers" — augmenting silicon computing chips with those seeded with living human neurons. Cortical Labs, ...

All life on Earth depends on the same molecular alphabet: 20 amino acids that cells string together to make proteins. But now, scientists have reengineered bacteria to run a core part of their ...

When ransomware actors start attacking each other, who wins? Maybe defenders do. The Halcyon Ransomware Research Center published a blog post recently, primarily covering two newer ...

Electricity demand is surging as hyperscalers build out massive data centers to power the next generation of artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms. These modern data centers require significantly ...

As 2025 comes to a close, the editors at The Scientist asked researchers to reflect on the biggest breakthroughs in cell biology this year. They named advances in everything from embryo models for ...

In an amazing twist of fate, the aggressive cervical cancer tumor that killed Henrietta Lacks, a 31-year old African American mother, became an essential tool that helped the biomedical field flourish ...

Illustration by The Atlantic. Sources: Krisztian Bocsi / Bloomberg / Getty; Anna Moneymaker / Getty; U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York. Elon Musk and Sam Altman are two of the ...