Our cells are constantly being pushed, stretched, and compressed without our awareness: a play of invisible forces that ...

A Université de Montréal study has found a previously unknown mechanism in bacterial reproduction that could be attacked by future antibiotics. Bacteria reproduce by dividing into two: they form a ...

Scientists have created human eggs containing genes from adult skin cells, a step that someday could help women who are infertile or gay couples have babies with their own genes but would also raise ...

As the human body replaces millions of dead cells every day, it relies on a process of cooperation between cells that evolved as a way to guard against cancer, according to newly published research ...

It’s not just about chromosomes. Or reproductive cells. Or any other binary metric. Many genetic, environmental and developmental variations can produce what are thought of as masculine and feminine ...

Sperm may lose their ability to navigate in microgravity, raising new questions about whether human reproduction is possible ...