A growing body of work suggests that cell metabolism — the chemical reactions that provide energy and building materials — ...

How is it that your body with all of its specialized organs developed from a single cell? Scientists are exploring how gene expression patterns and their timing regulate cell differentiation.

In vertebrates, the skeleton of different regions of the body arises from different precursor cells. Researchers at the University of Basel have now discovered that these skeletal cells do not just ...

The engineered mice were unable to regulate their body temperature for the first eight hours following cold exposure, after which fat cells that use UCP1 took over, shutting down mitochondria and ...