Varun Venkataramani is the winner of the 2025 Eppendorf Award for Young European Investigators. A neurologist and group leader at Heidelberg University Hospital, Germany, his work in cancer ...

Your body contains trillions of cells, each carrying out specific functions to keep you alive. According to a 2016 article in PLOS Biology, about 97% of these cells are made up of red blood cells, ...

Scientists are looking for answers about how these confounding trips, known as metastases, occur throughout the human body Illustration of a human cancer cell Amber Dance, Knowable Magazine Back in ...

Cells are constantly on the move, whether in a developing embryo or metastatic cancer. But how do cells adapt to new environments they encounter? Traditionally, scientists have believed that cells ...

Researchers have discovered how cells activate a last-resort DNA repair system when severe damage strikes. When genetic tangles overwhelm normal repair pathways, cells flip on a fast but error-prone ...

Cancer cells can brainwash their neighbors. Like the CIA deploying secret agents to turn an enemy, tumors use a similar strategy to manipulate nearby cells. The tumors’ agents are mitochondria, the ...

From the deep sea to the shallow seafloor, researchers are uncovering unusual sugars that do something extraordinary to ...

Researchers have found a reliable way to grow helper T cells from stem cells, solving a major challenge in immune-based ...

All of our cells use sugar as an energy source. Eating too much added sugar can increase your risk of chronic diseases, including cancer. Foods with naturally occurring sugar, such as fruit, have ...