To stop their cells from exploding after a downpour, plants trigger them to self-destruct. Now researchers know more about how.

Light-responsive biomaterials, such as the 2D nanosheets, "have a strong potential for developing the next generation of noninvasive, precise, and controllable medical devices."

Lab-grown meat is still too expensive for the large scale, but computer models could make it cheaper, say researchers.

Understanding how the malaria parasite keeps time could help develop new weapons against a disease that kills a child every two minutes.

A protein that plays a vital role in cancer cell division could be a new target for drugs or treatments, researchers say.

A molecule responsible for lowering our blood pressure also helps coronavirus get into our cells and replicate. And it occurs more in men than in women.

Researchers from Oregon Health and Science University found that variations in genes that code for parts of the cellular alarm system might play a role in how well people fight off COVID-19.

Researchers at the University of California, San Francisco, identified nine existing drugs that show promise to treat COVID-19. The proteins they target haven't been tried before.

A new imaging technique sends nanoparticles into living cells to reveal important information about cell structure—including how tumor cells physically change as they form a tumor.

Cellular 'muscles' enable cells to exert forces outside of themselves and to propagate. Now, researchers have visualized their movement.