Living cells may generate electricity through the natural motion of their membranes. These fast electrical signals could play ...

Biologists have long treated the cell as a chemical factory, but a new wave of research is forcing a rethink of that familiar ...

Cigarette smoking is prevalent worldwide and causes numerous diseases, yet our understanding of how cigarette smoke (CS) causes serious respiratory illnesses is incomplete, and has held back the ...

Understanding how cells decide their fate is a central challenge in biology, complicated by the fact that single-cell RNA ...

In pink, wild type cells expressing gamma actin. In black, knock-out cells that do not express gamma actin. The yellowish lines reveal the tortuous nature of the junctions. Our skin and mucous ...

Every cell depends on proteins to function and stay healthy. These proteins are made inside the cell from amino acids, but ...

Researchers have captured the world's first high-resolution images of the earliest moments of microtubules forming inside human cells. The findings lay the foundations for potential breakthroughs in ...

By engineering a system replicating the womb lining with high biological accuracy, researchers at the Babraham Institute and ...