The newly described microbe represents a world of parasitic, intercellular biodiversity only beginning to be revealed by ...

The structure of the cell, and its components, have largely been explored through methods such as protein fluorescent imaging and protein biophysical association. Now, researchers have combined ...

Average location of 17 structures, each a different color, inside of a human cell. (Allen Institute Image / Matheus P. Viana et al. ) Our cells are built from smaller structures that specialize in the ...

You have all kinds of cells in your body that do lots of different things. In fact, there are about 200 types of cells in the human body – from blood cells and skin cells to bone cells. To find out ...

How do cells measure themselves? Now we have an answer to this long-standing biological question. Ever since scientists discovered cells under the microscope more than 350 years ago, they have noted ...

While building a muscle damage model in a cultured system, a research collaboration between Kumamoto University and Nagasaki University in Japan has found that components leaking from broken muscle ...

Cells have to maintain the right size; bacterial and eukaryotic cells tend to reach a characteristic dimension, but that may also be influenced by many things like nutrient availability. Cells are ...

No one saw the blob takeover coming. In 2009 a team of biophysicists led by Anthony A. Hyman of the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics in Dresden, Germany, were studying ...

Daniel M Davis is the author of two books about the immune system, The Beautiful Cure (Vintage) and The Compatibility Gene (Penguin). He receives funding from the Wellcome Trust, GSK and Continuum ...