A human cell is a Rube Goldberg machine like no other, full of biological chain reactions that make the difference between life and death. Understanding these delicate relationships and how they go ...

Understanding how bone marrow produces blood–and how this whole process can fail–is critical to fighting blood cancers and ...

If Stephen Quake gets his way, biologists in the future will spend a lot less time wielding pipettes. “Our goal,” he says, “is to create computational tools so that cell biology goes from being 90% ...

Nearly 50 years ago, neuroscientists discovered cells within the brain's hippocampus that store memories of specific locations. These cells also play an important role in storing memories of events, ...

Given troves of data about genes and cells, A.I. models have made some surprising discoveries. What could they teach us someday? Credit...Doug Chayka Supported by By Carl Zimmer In 1889, a French ...