"The infection of our body cells is like a dance between virus and cell," suggested Yohei Yamauchi at ETH Zurich. With their new system, the team watched how single flu virus particles move across the ...

A microscope that cost less than £50 and took under 3 hours to build using a common 3D printer could be transformative for ...

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

For the first time, researchers have been able to show how a cell closes the door to free radicals—small oxygen molecules ...

By moving around, some cancer cells force attacking immune cells to just nibble at the edges rather than engulf them ...

Unlike our organs, cell organelles such as mitochondria are not fixed in place, but when, where, how, and why organelles move ...

Most people know that you can't see atoms... or can you? With this special microscope, scientists actually can! In the late 1970s, two physicists in Switzerland set out to invent a new type of ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Zak Doffman writes about security, surveillance and privacy. America’s cyber defense agency now warns Google, Microsoft and Apple ...

Here’s some good news: Residents of Massachusetts want to roll back recreational marijuana use in their state. Just when you thought that none of the Democrat-embraced initiatives damaging our country ...

The biological cycle of our existence seems relatively straightforward: we’re born, we live, we die. The end. But when you examine existence at the cellular level, things get a bit more interesting.