Scientists have discovered that cells can sense far beyond the surfaces they touch. While individual cancer cells can probe about 10 microns ahead by tugging on surrounding collagen fibers, clusters ...

Cells in our bodies produce RNA based on genetic information stored in DNA, and RNA serves as a blueprint for making proteins ...

A simulated cell in the early stages of division. Left half shows membrane (green cubes), and ribosomes (yellow/purple) interwoven through in the cell’s chromosome (red). Right side shows all the ...

Scientists from the National University of Singapore (NUS) have developed a biochemical technique that captures fleeting ...

Scientists recorded 24 hours of the cellular construction process, revealing surprising new details about how plant cell ...

For years, biomolecular condensates were thought to be simple, liquid-like droplets with little internal organization. New ...

As a researcher, I still remember the discomfort I felt every time I had to sacrifice laboratory animals for an experiment.

There’s a shocking lack of understanding of the physics underlying this commonplace phenomenon, but researchers are on the ...

Entering a cell and watching its entire inner machinery at work, how DNA is copied, how proteins are assembled, or how it splits in two, has been, for decades, an impossible dream. Now, scientists at ...

Our limited understanding of the metabolism of our microbial ancestor is a sizeable gap in our knowledge of how complex life originated. Resolving whether our closest microbial relatives had ...