A nerve cell resembles a vast tree with branches that communicate with thousands of other cells. To function, it depends on a ...

The nucleolus is a liquid-like cellular organelle where protein factories called ribosomes are assembled. Researchers knew of ...

A novel measurement cell allows, for the first time, soft and hard X-ray investigations under pressures of up to 20 bar and ...

Cells are crowded, dynamic places where thousands of molecules interact in tight quarters. Until now, scientists lacked a reliable way to see many of these molecular interactions as they happen.

The SpudCell certainly resembles a living cell, but a key structure inside the cell falls short of the real thing ...

The first evidence that bacteria can convert toxic uranium dissolved in water into a stable chemical compound.

A laser-based innovation could allow electron microscopes to reveal biological structures that have long remained beyond ...

That is why scientists at the Sudha Gopalakrishnan Brain Centre (SGBC) at the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras (IIT-M) ...

Astronomers have detected a type of sugar in space that’s also found in raspberries. The sugar, called erythrulose, lurks in ...

A new study challenges a 60-year-old assumption about the body’s main structural building block, opening new possibilities ...

A microscope that cost less than £50 and took under 3 hours to build using a common 3D printer could be transformative for ...