A new imaging approach is shedding light on one of cell biology’s most elusive questions: how lipids are organized and sorted within membranes.

In a major advance applying insights from quantum physics to the inner workings of biology, a team of WashU researchers has ...

Cells require lipids to maintain their integrity and separate cellular functions for appropriate homeostasis and regulation. Advances in lipid detection methods and techniques to probe lipid functions ...

In a first-of-its-kind study, researchers demonstrate that functional nervous systems can form within self-organized living ...

Aging does not arrive all at once. It builds quietly across years, touching cells long before symptoms appear.

For years, biomolecular condensates were thought to be simple, liquid-like droplets with little internal organization. New ...

Biobots, whose growing line of variants started with xenobots, are fascinating tiny self-powered living robots built ...

KU Leuven Center for Cancer Biology, in collaboration with the Francis Crick Institute, has discovered how cancer cells can ...

Cellular health plays a crucial role in your overall well-being. On average, the human body has between 30-40 trillion cells of various types and with various functions. The healthier your cells are, ...

Allan Albig receives funding from the National Institute of Health. Think back to that basic biology class you took in high school. You probably learned about organelles, those little “organs” inside ...

Prior to using this narrative, have learners create their own model of a cell in their notebooks using whatever background information or experience they might have. While exploring the narrative, ...