A new kind of microscope is giving scientists a way to watch life inside cells with a clarity that feels almost unfair.

Living cells may generate electricity through the natural motion of their membranes. These fast electrical signals could play ...

In pink, wild type cells expressing gamma actin. In black, knock-out cells that do not express gamma actin. The yellowish lines reveal the tortuous nature of the junctions. Our skin and mucous ...

Cigarette smoking is prevalent worldwide and causes numerous diseases, yet our understanding of how cigarette smoke (CS) causes serious respiratory illnesses is incomplete, and has held back the ...

Understanding how cells decide their fate is a central challenge in biology, complicated by the fact that single-cell RNA ...

Researchers have captured the world's first high-resolution images of the earliest moments of microtubules forming inside human cells. The findings lay the foundations for potential breakthroughs in ...

Scientists have identified a new organelle in liver cells called the mitochondria-lysosome-related organelle (MLRO). This discovery could improve our understanding of chronic liver diseases like ...

Cancer treatments aim to kill tumor cells, and the immune system is tasked with getting rid of the resulting cellular corpses. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...