Nerve cells are not just nerve cells. Depending on how finely we distinguish, there are several hundred to several thousand ...

A team has made a major breakthrough in the field of three-dimensional (3D) imaging of large-scale biological tissues. They ...

Mitochondria are cell organelles surrounded by a double membrane. In addition to numerous essential functions in the ...

Nerves look blue in the reconstructed view of a genetically engineered mouse (left) whose neurons produce a fluorescent ...

For the first time, scientists have 3-D printed objects within living cells, including a 10-micrometer long elephant and tiny “barcodes” that could help track individual cells. Remarkably, many of the ...

Cells, including those in the human body, might have the ability to "learn," a capability once thought to be exclusive to ...

A collaborative study led by Professor Vittoria Raffa at the University of Pisa and Assistant Professor Fabian Raudzus ...

Primary cilia are microtubule‐based organelles that protrude from the surface of most vertebrate cell types. Operating as antenna‐like structures, primary cilia detect and transmit chemical, light and ...

Stanford researchers discovered that dialing down an overactive enzyme, LRRK2, can regrow lost cellular “antennae” in key ...