Cells have an internal skeleton that maintains their structure and also drives their movement. Known as the cytoskeleton, ...

The prefrontal cortex region of the human brain is responsible for a range of complex functions from decision-making to certain types of memory. When something goes wrong in this part of the brain, it ...

Researchers at the University of Tokyo have built a microscope that can detect a signal over an intensity range 14 times ...

Researchers have developed synthetic genes that function like the genes in living cells. The artificial genes can build intracellular structures through a cascading sequence that builds ...

Researchers have found a new, dynamic protein structure in cells. Every cell contains millions of protein molecules. Some of them have the ability to phase-separate to form non-membrane-bound ...

A research team from the School of Engineering at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) has achieved a ...

University of Tokyo researchers have created a powerful new microscope that captures both forward- and back-scattered light ...

In a recent study published in the journal Nature, a large team of researchers from the United States (U.S.) used single-cell ribonucleic acid (RNA) sequencing combined with high-resolution ...

Genetic engineers can design and assemble sophisticated gene circuits to program cells with new functions, but important ...

In 2020 biologist Michael Levin and his colleagues reported that they had made “biological robots” by shaping clusters of cells into tiny artificial forms that could “walk” around on surfaces. Levin’s ...