Cell walls are a crucial structure of plant life, protecting cells from damage, giving plants shape, and containing ...

When oil is dropped in water, the oil droplets stay separate. Cells can also use a system like this to separate or gather materials, encouraging various reactions and processes to occur. Scientists ...

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 ...

During infection or cancer, cytotoxic T lymphocytes attach to their target and establish an exchange zone known as the immune ...

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

Cytotoxic T lymphocytes are the body's specialized "killer" cells, precisely eliminating infected or cancerous cells.

Even after decades of research, biologists are still uncovering surprises about the human body. A team of researchers from the University of Virginia and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have ...

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

Cell division during the early stage of embryo development is a trade-off between speed and accuracy; the cells need to ...