What makes them unique: Plant cells have structures like cell walls, large vacuoles, and chloroplasts, enabling ...

When the body encounters infection or cancer, cytotoxic T lymphocytes attach to the affected cell and form the immune synapse ...

Membrane proteins present significant technical challenges in drug discovery, yet their role in biology make them highly ...

So-called rock-eating microorganisms obtain their energy to convert carbon dioxide (CO2) from inorganic sources and make up the vast majority of biomass producers. Using electron microscopy and ...

A joke between researchers turned into the first structure 3D-printed inside a living cell, a precursor to building ...

A collaboration between the University of Geneva and Lausanne University Hospital has shown in new detail how the body's defenses fight back against malignant cells. Those defenses involve T ...

Researchers debunk what science believed about brain cell structure for 100 years, finding axons form repeating pearl-like ...

Nanoplastics are tiny plastic particles measured at the nanometer scale, which may be capable of crossing the blood-brain ...

The cell membrane’s hidden complexity Far from being a static shell, the cell membrane is a fluid, selectively permeable phospholipid bilayer embedded with proteins, carbohydrates, and cholesterol. It ...

In mouse brain cells, and in follow-up work involving worms and human cortical neurons, the team found that many axons ...

The body’s “killer” T cells don’t just attack—they strike with astonishing precision, forming a tiny, highly organized ...