Such observations might seem ho-hum today, but they were unprecedented at the time. Robert Hooke had coined the word “cell”—short for cellula, or “small compartment” in Latin—in the mid-17th century, ...

Doctors noticed that patients who had sickle cell anemia, a serious hereditary blood disease, were more likely to survive malaria, a disease which kills some 1.2 million people every year.

For example, the endothelial tissue that lines the human gastrointestinal tract consists of several cell types. Some of these cells absorb nutrients from the digestive contents, whereas others ...

Kennedy Jr. reiterated a debunked theory as the justification for prohibiting children from bringing cell phones to school. RFK Jr. appeared on "Fox & Friends" Thursday to advocate for a cell ...

Cell membranes are intricate structures ... Their approach is based on dynamic density functional theory (DDFT), a method that allows them to represent the distribution of lipids as a continuous ...