atomic structure, and his own digital creations. What makes MRK’s images so compelling is the way they make cell biology seem less abstract. Instead of brightly colored diagrams, we get sweeping ...

Biofilms are conglomerates of bacteria and other organisms, which are feared in medicine as well as other areas because they ...

In a leap forward for genetic and biomedical research, two scientists at the University of Missouri have developed a powerful ...

The wiring diagram and its supporting files ... The papers present findings about the structure of the visual cortex, the assortment of cells found in the sample and how those cells function.

Each organelle performs a specific function critical to the cell's survival (Table 1). Table 1. The structure and function of key eukaryotic cell structures. In animal cells, vacuoles are generally ...

A cell structure has been discovered that could help scientists understand why some cancers develop. For the first time, a structure called 'the mesh' has been identified which helps to hold ...

Although entotic cell-in-cell structure is similar to that of cannibalism or phagocytosis, homotypic entosis is a process in which a living tumor cell invades intactly into a neighboring cell of ...

But filopodia can also wreak havoc: metastatic cancer cells use them to invade new regions of the body. Filopodia are ...

Table 1 below provides an overview of the key features of a prokaryotic cell: Table 1. The structure and function of key prokaryotic cell structures. Prokaryotes have ribosomes but they are smaller ...

Special design of the skeletal structure The primary cilia observed in this study originated from both animal and human beta cells. The researchers investigated how the skeletal structure (axoneme ...