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

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

Advanced nanoscale imaging technology has revealed the diversity of living cells in human milk and uncovered new insights ...

Can the bend of a banana give us insight into cancer? What does the shape of a rice grain have to do with infertility? The proteins that give plants their shape and structure are also involved in ...

Biomedical research typically follows a familiar path: developing treatments that block, enhance or mutate certain signaling pathways, genes or proteins to change the function of different cells in ...

Identifying and delineating cell structures in microscopy images is crucial for understanding the complex processes of life. This task is called 'segmentation' and it enables a range of applications, ...

Jack Challoner, Gills of a fish-like invertebrate (all images courtesy Jack Challoner, from ‘The Cell: A Visual Tour of the Building Block of Life‘) In 1665, when British polymathic scientist Robert ...

Volvox parent spheroid: Numerous individual cells can be seen across the entire surface as magenta-colored dots. Developing daughter spheroids appear as a few larger clusters with very small dots. The ...

The researchers found that GaGCLs share several important features with mammalian germinal centers. B cells within these structures underwent extensive proliferation and apoptosis, while B cells ...

New research reveals that NEAT1-built nuclear structures called paraspeckles determine both the identity of pancreatic cancer ...