Proteins are the workhorses of cells. Learn how their functions are based on their three-dimensional structures, which emerge from a complex folding process.

EDMONTON - University of Alberta researchers are rewriting the textbooks with a discovery that alters science's understanding of one of the cell's most basic processes.

Wood is a highly ordered arrangement of living, dying and dead cells. Here is a briefing on how tree cells grow and function structurally.

Identifying and delineating cell structures in microscopy images is crucial for understanding the complex processes of life.

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

Although known since the 1830s as a round, dark spot in a cell's nucleus, only recently has the nucleolus gotten its full due. Scientists, including research conducted by the lab of Clifford ...

Biologists used the world’s largest single-celled organism, an aquatic alga called Caulerpa taxifolia, to study the nature of structure and form in plants. It is a single cell that can grow to a ...

Article Published: May 1999 Structure and interactions of NCAM modules 1 and 2, basic elements in neural cell adhesion Peter Holme Jensen, Vladislav Soroka, Niels Kirk Thomsen, Igor Ralets ...

EDMONTON - University of Alberta researchers are rewriting the textbooks with a discovery that alters science's understanding of one of the cell's most basic processes.