During animal development, cells divide and arrange themselves in a coordinated way, eventually forming the embryo. The cells communicate with one another during this process through cell-surface ...

Strata: Stories from Deep Time’ explores the origins of the air we breathe and untangles some of our planet’s oldest stories.

Although scientists have made significant progress in understanding the disease, there’s still no cure. That’s partly because ...

University of Virginia scientists discover new cell organelle called "hemifusome" that helps manage cellular recycling.

Large-scale microscopy combined with tissue clearing and expansion enables nanoscale imaging of centimeter scale specimens.

Researchers used a $2.3 million grant from NCInnovation, which supports commercializing research discoveries, to develop a ...

The AI microscope will automate the tedious job of fecal egg counting, which is used to identify parasites in farm animals.

Here we use cryogenic electron microscopy to determine the structure of TbAQP2 from Trypanosoma brucei, bound to either the substrate glycerol or to the sleeping sickness drugs, pentamidine or ...

Even after decades of research, biologists are still uncovering surprises about the human body. A team of researchers from ...

Cryo-electron tomography (also cryo-ET or electron cryotomography) is a technique where an electron microscope is used to record a series of two-dimensional images as a biological sample held at ...

Cells are the fundamental, structural, and functional units of living organisms. Cells are composed of cytoplasm containing various organelles, such as the nucleus, in which the DNA is stored, or ...