A new study shows how cell membranes curve to create the “mouths” that allow the cells to consume things that surround them. “Just like our…
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Coronin 1 promotes long-term survival of the T cells of our immune system. Credit: Nano Imaging Lab SNI/Biozentrum, University of Basel They are at the…
Carlo Maley is a researcher with the Biodesign Center for Biocomputing, Security and Society at Arizona State University. Maley is also researcher with the Biodesign…
UNIGE Scientists have discovered how the absence of a genetic switch can lead to malformations during embryonic development. Embryonic development follows delicate stages: for everything…
An LNP is located on a long endosomal tubule (green), together with a perpendicular disperse mRNA signal (cyan), and likely representing an instance of mRNA…
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Associate Professor Camila dos Santos’ lab discovered that after pregnancy, breast cells call in specialized immune cells called Natural Killer T…
Macrophages in Culture. Credit: Adam Taylor Researchers from the University of Southampton, working with colleagues at the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl), have developed…
UC San Diego researchers introduce Multi-Scale Integrated Cell (MuSIC), a technique that combines microscopy, biochemistry and artificial intelligence, revealing previously unknown cell components that may…
Dr. Eric A. Vitriol. Credit: Michael Holahan, Augusta University A new “image analysis pipeline” is giving scientists rapid new insight into how disease or injury…
A section of heart tissue that reveals the nexus glia of the heart (green) interact with neurons (blue) and heart cells (red), likely to modulate…
DNA and associated cellular machinery is gathered and organized by certain non-coding RNAs, each region shown in a different colored jellybean-shape in this model. Credit:…
Sertoli cells are highly polarized cells that nurture different stages of germ cells at the same time. This image reveals how a single Sertoli cell,…
Bacteriophages are viruses that infect bacteria and play a potential role in the evolution of life. Viruses have a bad reputation. They are responsible for…
Schizosaccharomyces pombe yeast cells dividing. A multi-disciplinary team of scientists at Lehigh University.Established in 1865, Lehigh University is a private research university in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.…
Study first to show how some toxins and drugs enter cells. For decades, scientists have wondered how large molecules such as proteins pass through cell…
Scientists plan to exploit this new understanding to create new therapeutics for antibiotic-resistant superbugs. The mechanism which allows β-lactam antibiotics, including penicillin, to kill MRSA…
Microscopy image of a living E. coli bacterium, revealing the patchy nature of its protective outer membrane. A densely packed network of proteins is interrupted…
The microtubule network (green) re-organizes at the muscle lesion and attracts myonuclei. Credit: William Roman, iMM Muscle is known to regenerate through a complex process…
Credit: Barth van Rossum for Caltech If you are a researcher who wants to see how just a few cells in an organism are behaving,…
A model of the human nuclear pore complex depicts the major proteins that make up the pore’s three rings. Top to bottom: The Cytoplasmic Ring…