Kanazawa University and colleagues have achieved a breakthrough in understanding sperm DNA packaging. Using high-speed atomic ...

DNA strand displacement circuits are inching closer to becoming cellular machines. Scientists are finding ways to make these programmable nanodevices stable and functional inside living cells. If ...

For the first time, scientists have built a detailed, interactive map of a human cell, revealing how thousands of proteins ...

Inspired by sea sponges, researchers created living micro-lenses from bacteria that may improve medical and industrial ...

Proteins are the building blocks of life. They consist of folded peptide chains, which in turn are made up of a series of ...

In a study published in Science today, Mingsha Zhang, a neuroscientist at Beijing Normal University, focused on the thalamus.

Under microscopes, scientists found that giant single-cell organisms were able to vacuum up more food when they are stuck ...

Researchers found that cooperative fluid dynamics between single-celled organisms may have driven the evolution of ...

Lymphocytes are white blood cells that help the body fight infection and disease. The healthy range for an adult is between 1,000 and 4,800 lymphocytes per microliter (µL) of blood. Doctors will ...

In plant and fungal cells, vacuoles help maintain cell structure. All eukaryotic cells have a cell ... they are still present in plants, fungi and some protists. These rigid structures provide ...