Scientists can peer into cells to get a limited view of their activity using microscopes and other tools. However, cells and ...

Taking images of tiny structures within cells is tricky business. One technique, cryogenic electron tomography (cryoET), ...

Scientists have transformed enigmatic cell structures, called vaults, into storage units for messenger-RNA molecules made in ...

Researchers have developed a way to 3D print custom micrometer-sized structures directly into the interior of living cells.

Every time our body encounters a new disease-causing agent, a crucial defense system called adaptive immunity comes into play ...

Metabolism, far from being just a housekeeping function, underlies all changes in cell size and function ...

Volvox parent spheroid: Numerous individual cells can be seen across the entire surface as magenta-colored dots. Developing daughter spheroids appear as a few larger clusters with very small dots. The ...

Among modern cancer therapies, immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICI) are among the most successful treatment methods. These ...

Improving our understanding of the impact obesity has on individual cells could go a long way to preventing some of its deleterious downstream effects, such as diabetes and cardiovascular disease.

Stanford University-led researchers report that tumor cells hijack mitochondria from immune cells, reducing anti-tumor immune ...

- Muscle cells, also known as myocytes, are specialized cells designed for contraction and force production. Skeletal Muscle Cells: These cells are long, cylindrical, and have a striated (or striped) ...