Plant cells have several structures not found in other eukaryotes. In particular, organelles called chloroplasts allow plants to capture the energy of the Sun in energy-rich molecules; cell walls ...

Researchers at Linköping University, Sweden, have succeeded in creating a close connection between individual cells and ...

Similar to a small cut that heals itself after a short time, individual cells in our body suffer "wounds" in their protective ...

Researchers from the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) and researchers from University of Tokyo, Nagoya ...

Scientists reveal how filopodia help cancer spread. The breakthrough could improve treatments that stop cancer cells from invading tissues.

Current optical and electron microscopy imaging techniques are not suited for measuring the dynamic characteristics of living ...

really important to maintain any structure which has a membrane," Singh said. Take the electrolyte potassium, for example. It is the most abundant positively charged ion inside cells, but its ...

"Until our collaborative study, exocyst was understood to recognize and possibly tether secretory vesicles to the cell membrane, prior to exocytosis. In this study, we reveal biophysical studies ...