Using a tiny, spherical glass lens sandwiched between two brass plates, the 17th century Dutch microscopist Antonie van Leeuwenhoek was the first to officially describe red blood cells and sperm cells ...

For decades, ribosomes have been under the lens of many scientists. Ribosomes are highly sophisticated and complex molecular ...

Hemifusomes are fused vesicles, or sacs of fluid, that were previously unknown to exist inside cells. They were discovered using cryo-electron tomography, which literally freezes them in time, and ...

Migrating cancer cells shed large vesicles called MoVes that carry whole genomic DNA, organelles and EMT-linked proteins, ...

Living cells in human milk handle nutrients in different ways, nanoscale imaging reveals, offering a closer look at milk ...