Eukaryotic cells are cells that contain a nucleus and other membrane ... This is why plants are known as producers, while ...

By using a genetic technique developed at UT Southwestern Medical Center that forces cells to rid themselves of mitochondria, ...

No less than 16 different types of nerve cells have been identified by scientists in a new study on the human sense of touch. Comparisons between humans, mice and macaques show both similarities ...

Researchers identified some 3,300 types of brain cells, ... At least 16,000 genes are active in the brain, and they are turned on in different combinations in different types of cells.

MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: It takes decades for a person's brain to be disabled by Alzheimer's disease. Now scientists have created a detailed timeline of what happens to different brain cells as the ...

In 2024, new studies have exposed additional layers of this story, showing, for example, that along with bacteria and eukaryotic cells, archaea also exchange vesicle-bound RNA, which confirms that the ...

The 2024 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine has been awarded to US scientists Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun for their work on the discovery of microRNA, a molecule that governs how cells in the ...