A research team led by Prof. Wang Zhenyou at the Aerospace Information Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences ...

By moving around, some cancer cells force attacking immune cells to just nibble at the edges rather than engulf them ...

Abstract: Conjunctival goblet cells (CGCs) are specialized mucin-secreting epithelial cells, playing key roles for ocular surface homeostasis. Their examination is important for diagnosing various ...

Advanced light microscopy techniques are giving scientists a new understanding of human biology and what goes wrong in diseases Katarina Zimmer, Knowable Magazine Innovative techniques are helping ...

Biologists are very interested in how proteins, lipids and other compounds are organized and interact in systems. Very few organizational details can be gained by using standard transmission-based ...

It has been over 60 years since Osamu Shimomura et al. discovered Green Fluorescent Protein (GFP) 1. Since then, the color palette for fluorescent proteins has been extended to span blue through to ...

How to take still and video images of your favorite specimens: from attaching a camera to choosing a digital camera that photographs directly. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn ...

Molecular & Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley , California94720-1460, United States Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley , ...

In bacteria, cell division is intimately linked to the architecture of the outer cell envelope. In Deinococcus radiodurans, a bacterium well-known for its remarkable radiation-resistance, the cell ...

Plant cells are surrounded by an intricately structured protective coat called the cell wall. It’s built of cellulose microfibrils intertwined with polysaccharides like hemicellulose or pectin. We ...