Human cells are extremely small and tightly packed – at about 20 micrometers across, ...
A team led by UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers has uncovered the atomic structure of a protein complex pivotal to the function of motile cilia, the hair-like structures extending from the ...
A Scripps team has adapted advanced imaging and computation to measure cell membrane thickness inside intact animal and yeast ...
After centuries of mapping the human body in ever-finer detail, scientists are still making discoveries. Here we are, in 2025, and a previously unknown cellular structure that could be vital to our ...
Inflammation represents a long-conserved biological process characterized by the release of chemical messengers that regulate the immune response. When the body faces an injury or infection, the ...
Scientists suggest death may not be biologically final at the cellular level. Research shows cells can enter a “third state of life,” remaining active and reorganizing after an organism dies. Studies ...