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

University of Virginia scientists discover new cell organelle called "hemifusome" that helps manage cellular recycling.

In a twist, researchers at the University of Virginia and the National Institutes of Health uncovered a new organelle, dubbed ...

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 vistas of the cell and components that look very ...

A new structure in human cells has been discovered. The structure is a new type of protein complex that the cell uses to attach to its surroundings and proves to play a key part in cell division.

In a new study, published today (12 July) in Nature, researchers have produced the most detailed and comprehensive human Heart Cell Atlas to date, including the specialised tissue of the cardiac ...

The crystal structure of human ST8SiaIII at 1.85-Å ... Lavie, A. & Colley, K.J. Structure and mutagenesis of neural cell adhesion ... Topology diagram of human ST8SiaIII ...

We report here the crystal structure of the inhibitory human killer cell immunoglobulin-like receptor 2DL1 (KIR2DL1) ... Ribbon diagram of a crystallographic dimer of the KIR2DL1–HLA-Cw4 complex.

Researchers say they have mapped more than 200,000 cells in a cubic millimeter ... of the tissue sample on a cell-by-cell basis. The wiring diagram and its supporting ... of the human brain, it is ...

Neuroscientists have produced the largest wiring diagram and functional map of a mammalian brain to date using tissue from a part of a mouse's cerebral cortex involved in vision, an achievement ...