Scientists can peer into cells to get a limited view of their activity using microscopes and other tools. However, cells and ...

Every time our body encounters a new disease-causing agent, a crucial defense system called adaptive immunity comes into play ...

Metabolism, far from being just a housekeeping function, underlies all changes in cell size and function ...

Researchers have developed a way to 3D print custom micrometer-sized structures directly into the interior of living cells.

- Muscle cells, also known as myocytes, are specialized cells designed for contraction and force production. Skeletal Muscle Cells: These cells are long, cylindrical, and have a striated (or striped) ...

Scientists have uncovered a new way embryonic cells divide when conventional mechanisms fail. Cell division underpins all ...

Cells do more than carry out chemical reactions. New theoretical work suggests they may also generate usable electrical ...

A research team of the University Medical Center Mainz has succeeded in observing for the first time how G protein-coupled ...

The constant, energy-driven motion inside living cells may generate electricity in a way no one fully recognized before.

The American Cancer Society estimates that over 80,000 individuals will be diagnosed with bladder cancer this year.