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

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

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

Velia Fowler (standing), chair of the Department of Biological Sciences and pioneering researcher in the architecture of cells, examines F-actin and other proteins in the structure of red blood cells ...

In aggressive lymphomas, inflammatory messengers reprogram the "conductors" of the immune system, causing lymph nodes ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...