A cell is fundamentally a container—a vessel that encapsulates life at the most basic level. Many biologists believe ...

A method tracks the motion of nucleolar layers to determine the viscoelastic properties of a membraneless organelle.

Ribosomes don’t just make proteins—they can sense when something’s wrong. When they collide, they send out stress signals ...

Researchers at Texas A&M University have developed a method to rejuvenate old and damaged human cells by replacing their ...

During cell division, adherent animal cells round up to create the precise spatial geometry required for accurate chromosome ...

Scientists have uncovered an unexpected function for a crucial protein involved in cell division. Reported in two consecutive publications, the finding challenges long-accepted models and standard ...

Researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine say they have used a "zap-and-freeze" technology to watch hard-to-see brain cell ...

A previously unknown type of DNA damage in the mitochondria, the tiny power plants inside our cells, could shed light on how ...

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

The central nervous system (CNS) is a finely tuned network that relies on the balance between neuronal survival and tightly ...

In an effort to reveal the inner workings of a protein that serves as a cell’s damage detection system, scientists at Johns ...

By: Sage Rohrbach and Michelle Yang A map of over 1,000 neurons, reconstructed from an analysis of one cubic millimeter of ...