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

Researchers have outlined five simple rules behind how the body maintains the complex structure of tissues like those in the ...

A little leg may reveal something big about how closely related insect species can drastically differ in body shape, ...

All cells, prokaryotic or eukaryotic, are surrounded by a plasma membrane. This thin, flexible, and potentially very fragile structure is all that stands between the interior of the cell and the ...

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 ...

T-Cell Feedback Shapes Complex Structure of the Thymus Crosstalk between T cells and the thymus shapes how the thymus grows and shapes itself.

Researchers have recently shed light on how cell membrane proteins could be influenced by the lipids around them. By developing a novel type of membrane model, they were able to show that the ...

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 ...

New progress in a long-standing debate about the nature of biological cell membranes could be made by considering which aspects of the membrane can be captured in simplified simulations.

News reports have attributed the planning and execution of the World Trade Center and Pentagon bombings on terrorist “cells.” What are terrorist cells, where do they come from, and how do they ...