“You could see little parts of the human cell being broken off,” Ralston said of her very first encounter with the parasite.

Tuberculosis, the world's deadliest infectious disease, is estimated to infect around 10 million people each year, and kills ...

This week, archaeologists identified depictions of the Milky Way galaxy in ancient Egyptian imagery. A mathematician found a ...

State Key Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry for Life Science, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, School of the Environment, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, China ...

Scientists have discovered how chemokines and G protein-coupled receptors selectively bind each other to control how cells move.

The largest study to date of most common form of testicular cancer has uncovered a possible link between disease risk and variations in the genes controlling cell shape and movement. By investigating ...

Structural studies of membrane proteins historically have relied almost exclusively on first removing membrane proteins from the membrane with dispersive agents like detergents. But dispersive agents ...

which cells use to coordinate responses to stimuli. These molecules move through the ER’s elaborate structure, and Koslover, who studies transport in cells from a physics perspective, wanted to ...

However, they still require proteins made from instructions in the cell nucleus to function properly and to assemble ... can dramatically disrupt chloroplast development and structure, said Yoon, who ...

Plant cells also contain large vacuoles and chloroplasts. Each organelle performs a specific function critical to the cell's survival (Table 1). Table 1. The structure and function of key eukaryotic ...

A eukaryote is any cell or organism that possesses a clearly defined nucleus. Eukaryotic cells form the foundation of complex, multicellular life, including apple trees, mushrooms, fish and humans.