Mimas is a small moon with a crater so large it gives appearance of Death Star Astronomers say it could be hiding an ocean beneath its icy cratered surface One of Saturn's moons could be hiding an ...

Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. Planetary scientists don’t care about Mimas, Saturn’s smallest moon. Sure, its massive Herschel crater might make it look li ...

We all begin existence as the simplest thing you can imagine if you’re trying to picture life: a single cell--nothing, in other words, but a tiny, spherical bag of proteins. In fact, the average ...

Most cell signals are chemical in nature. For example, prokaryotic organisms have sensors that detect nutrients and help them navigate toward food sources. In multicellular organisms, growth ...

Genes encode proteins and proteins dictate cell function. Therefore, the thousands of genes expressed in a particular cell determine what that cell can do. Moreover, each step in the flow of ...

Cells are the smallest unit of life and the building blocks for all organisms. Each component of a cell has its own function. Animal and plant cells differ and they have similarities. Nucleus ...

Long known as a messenger within cells, RNA is increasingly seen as life’s molecular communication system—even between ...

The new technique could kill a wide range of cancer cells, including breast and prostate A newly-discovered part of our immune system could be harnessed to treat all cancers, say scientists.

A centromere is a specialized location in the DNA that functions as the control center of cell division and is maintained, ...

Immunity plays a central role in the fight against cancer. Many of the current immunotherapies aim at helping the patient's ...