A new way to grow stem cells may help them release more of the signaling proteins they use to repair tissue, potentially ...

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

Cancer cells can acquire energy-generating structures called mitochondria from nearby nerve cells, which seems to aid their ...

For roughly 400 years, microscopes have allowed us to observe increasingly smaller details. Today's most advanced instruments ...

Northwestern Medicine scientists have discovered a previously unknown process used by epithelial cells to alleviate ...

Meissner corpuscles are the fast adapting type I (FA-I) mechanoreceptor that locates at the dermal papillae of skin. The Meissner corpuscle is well known for its complex structure, consisting of ...

Scientists in Tokyo have developed a groundbreaking, label-free method to identify aging human cells using electric fields.

A common structure of several physical laws emerges naturally from the Tonti diagrams of different physical theories so that topological operators can be built only once and used to assemble the ...

Description Diagram of generic plant and animal cells, showing major organelles including nucleus, nucleolus, rough endoplasmic reticulum, smooth endoplasmic reticulum, cell membranes, golgi apparatus ...