The blobfish, once considered the ugliest animal in the world, has since had quite the redemption arc. Years after it was ...

Scientists recorded 24 hours of the cellular construction process, revealing surprising new details about how plant cell ...

For years, biomolecular condensates were thought to be simple, liquid-like droplets with little internal organization. New ...

A simulated cell in the early stages of division. Left half shows membrane (green cubes), and ribosomes (yellow/purple) ...

Jack Challoner, Gills of a fish-like invertebrate (all images courtesy Jack Challoner, from ‘The Cell: A Visual Tour of the Building Block of Life‘) In 1665, when British polymathic scientist Robert ...

A new study published in Nature Biotechnology shows that stem cell differentiation is linked to cellular structures called P-bodies, providing a potential means of controlling cell identity.

Researchers examined anatomy of neurons from humans, mice and fruit flies. They discovered that the cellular structure of the brain is at a critical point, poised between two phases. New insights ...

An international team led by researchers from the University Medical Center Göttingen (UMG), Germany, has used advanced ...

In a recent study published in the journal Nature, a large team of researchers from the United States (U.S.) used single-cell ribonucleic acid (RNA) sequencing combined with high-resolution ...

Can the bend of a banana give us insight into cancer? What does the shape of a rice grain have to do with infertility? The proteins that give plants their shape and structure are also involved in ...

Researchers have developed a human intestinal cell model that closely mimics the structure and function of the human gut, ...