Biophysicist Seham Ebrahim of the University of Virginia and her team of researchers were observing mammalian cells when they ...

Plant and animal cells have many differences and each different part is vital to the role they play. They are so essential ...

Scientists say they captured 3D images of a new organelle they're calling a "hemifusome," which may be a recycling center in ...

A fertilized egg somehow manages to build skin, brain, and blood cells within days. But how? New tech called LoxCode is ...

CAMBRIDGE, MA – A protein located in the wrong part of a cell can contribute to several diseases, such as Alzheimer’s, cystic fibrosis, and cancer. But there are about 70,000 different ...

Microscope image of the miniature fallopian tube growing in a lab dish. (Image credit: MPI f. Infection Biology) In 2015, scientists used stem cells in a lab dish to grow the innermost cellular ...

A new part of an ocean plant cell has been discovered that might revolutionize farming one day. The structure can take nitrogen and convert it into the ingredient that helps all organisms grow.

A new study, published recently in Nature Communications, offers the first-ever map of which parts of the Chikungunya virus ...