Ian Huntley was attacked inside HMP Frankland and left in a pool of blood, and a former inmate who spent time in the same 'Monster Mansion' has shared insights about what it's like inside the prison ...

Conventional PCR systems require users to set a predetermined number of cycles based on assay- and sample-specific factors. When performing single-cell sequencing experiments, this requires knowledge ...

Auditory illusions, like how a word begins to sound meaningless when repeated, offer clues into the structure of language.

Northwestern Medicine scientists have identified the cellular mechanisms that cause immune cells to differentiate and ultimately lose function during viral infection, findings that could improve ...

Illumina on Tuesday unveiled what it calls the world’s largest functional cell dictionary that, when paired with artificial intelligence, will help accelerate drug discovery. Dubbed the Billion Cell ...

The discovery that tissues use electricity to expel unhealthy cells is part of a surge of renewed interest in the currents flowing through our bodies. We’re used to thinking of the brain as an ...

Scientists have used human skin cells to create fertilizable eggs capable of producing early embryos, an advance that could expand possibilities for fertility treatment, according to new research. The ...

Cancer cells can brainwash their neighbors. Like the CIA deploying secret agents to turn an enemy, tumors use a similar strategy to manipulate nearby cells. The tumors’ agents are mitochondria, the ...

MIT engineers have challenged a core idea in biology by showing that epigenetic memory is not simply binary. Their research reveals cells don’t just lock genes in an “on” or “off” state. Instead, they ...