Northwestern Medicine investigators have uncovered new insights into how intercellular "glue" functions to enable ...

Ten years ago, nobody knew that Asgard archaea even existed. In 2015, however, researchers examining deep-sea sediments ...

Who were our earliest ancestors? The answer could lie in a special group of single-celled organisms with a cytoskeleton similar to that of complex organisms, such as animals and plants.

Our skin and mucous membranes are protected by epithelial cells. This 'barrier' tissue performs its function thanks to specialized structures called 'junctions'. They ensure cell cohesion and regulate ...

Siegfried Musser, PhD, and his team in the Department of Cell Biology and Genetics at the Texas A&M College of Medicine have ...

Human biology is not black and white. Although newborns are typically categorized as male or female at birth based on visible ...

Researchers specifically involved in the field as well as those who deal with other aspects of cell biology will find here a reference. Obviously, many aspects of the in vivo functions of small ...

The discovery, published in the peer-reviewed journal Nature, is stated to have far-reaching implications, helping us to ...

Unorthodox biologist Michael Levin says cognition lies on a spectrum and that what humans perceive as consciousness could ...

The concept includes anatomy, physiology, cell biology, biochemistry and biophysics, and covers all organisms from microorganisms, animals to plants. Based on genome-wide association study data ...

A growing body of work suggests that cell metabolism — the chemical reactions that provide energy and building materials — ...

Researchers have developed pig retinal organoids to understand how stem cell-derived photoreceptor cells work as a ...