Experiments reveal that unsaturated lipid membranes promote vesicle fusion and DNA retention during freeze–thaw cycles, highlighting icy environments as potential drivers of protocell evolution. Today ...

When scientists want to study aging and how to slow it down, they often turn to microscopic worms or lab mice among other models. The former are too different from humans, while the latter are ...

Cell division by cytokinesis completes the cell cycle for every cell. Cytokinesis in fungal, amoeboid and animal cells takes place in four steps (Fig. 1). The process begins when the cell marks the ...

How Culture Shapes Our Relationship With Tears Cultural attitudes toward crying vary widely across the world. Some cultures embrace public expressions of grief, viewing shared tears as essential to ...

Certain neurodegenerative disorders are characterized by the progressive accumulation of insoluble deposits of distinct misfolded proteins. In general, mutations causing inherited forms of the ...