In a groundbreaking study on the synthesis of cellulose -- a major constituent of all plant cell walls -- a team has captured images of the microscopic process of cell-wall building continuously over ...

Just as cities must carefully manage the flow of cars in and out of downtown, cells regulate the movement of molecules into ...

Organelles in cells were originally often independent cells, which were incorporated by host cells and lost their ...

Ten years ago, nobody knew that Asgard archaea even existed. In 2015, however, researchers examining deep-sea sediments discovered gene fragments that indicated a new and previously undiscovered form ...

Who were our earliest ancestors? The answer could lie in a special group of single-celled organisms with a cytoskeleton similar to that of complex organisms, such as animals and plants.

One of the key challenges of the modern genomics era is studying the thousands of genes in a single human cell at scale. To ...

In a ceremony held last month, the 2024 Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize was awarded to Wesley Sundquist, PhD, Leo T. and Barbara K ...

Our skin and mucous membranes are protected by epithelial cells. This barrier tissue performs its function thanks to ...

Background Mechanical stress on the heart is commonly considered the sole stimulus explaining the synthesis and release of ...

Human biology is not black and white. Although newborns are typically categorized as male or female at birth based on visible ...