Every cell in the human body carries the same genome, yet a neuron, an immune cell, and a pancreatic beta cell behave in radically different ways because of which genes they switch on. Single-cell RNA ...

When oil is dropped in water, the oil droplets stay separate. Cells can also use a system like this to separate or gather materials, encouraging various reactions and processes to occur. Scientists ...

Northwestern University scientists have developed remarkably long, precisely patterned molecular threads that could open new ...

Biomolecular condensates were long believed to be simple liquid blobs inside cells. Researchers have now uncovered that some are actually supported by fine protein filaments forming an internal ...

Even further back, however, in 1781, Italian microscopist Felice Fontana already described nerve cells as having “uniform and simple cylinders,” which is the basis for how axons have been described ...

Scientists have uncovered details of the protective layer that surrounds the fine protrusions of cells. Biological cells often possess thin, hair-like protrusions on their surface known as cilia, ...

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 ...

Deep in the brainstem sits a small but important cluster of neurons known as the locus coeruleus (LC), Latin for "blue place." It makes up a tiny fraction of the brain's cells but plays an important ...

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 ...

Internal benchmarks show that Ptarmigan-1 can run 5,000x faster than structure-based methods and screen over three billion compounds in a day.

A combination treatment for advanced liver cancer appears to do something remarkable inside the tumor itself: it helps build ...