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 ...

A Moffitt Cancer Center researcher has introduced a new model that addresses one of biology's most fundamental questions: How does genetic information keep living systems organized and therefore alive ...

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 ...

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.

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

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

Starving yeast cells create a protective barrier in mitochondria that could reveal how cancer survives and resists treatment ...

The body’s “killer” T cells don’t just attack—they strike with astonishing precision, forming a tiny, highly organized ...

A collaboration between the University of Geneva and Lausanne University Hospital has shown in new detail how the body's defenses fight back against malignant cells. Those defenses involve T ...