Nearly 150 years ago, scientists began to imagine how information might flow through the brain based on the shapes of neurons ...

Feedback notes the flurry of new papers mentioning the mysterious "vegetative electron microscope", and ponders the emergence ...

This color-enhanced Transmission Electron Micrograph (TEM) shows the varicella zoster virus (VZV), a virus in the Herpesviridae family that causes chickenpox in children and shingles (herpes ...

The global effort to combat climate change requires expanding renewable energy technologies. To optimise solar cells, ...

Micro decisions can have macro consequences. A soft matter physicist reveals how interactions within simple cellular ...

Scripps Research team offers insights that could aid development of phage therapies against Mycobacteria The pathogens which ...

The researchers identified the structure of this machine, the mitochondrial pyruvate carrier (MPC), and 50 years since its discovery, have shown how it operates like the lock on a canal to transport ...

After more than five decades of mystery, scientists have finally unveiled the detailed structure and function of a ...

Fifty years since its discovery, scientists have finally worked out how a molecular machine found in mitochondria, the ...

After 50 years of mystery, researchers at the University of Cambridge have revealed how a molecular machine inside ...

Researchers have uncovered the 3D structure of RBP3, a key protein in vision, revealing how it transports retinoids and fatty ...