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

Some of the body's cells stay put for life, while others are free to roam. To move, these migratory cells rely on ...

One of the great hopes for stem cells is that they'll allow us to eventually replace injured or damaged tissues. But there's a big gap between the cells of stem cells and anything resembling an organ.

This protocol is an extension to: Nat. Protoc. 10, 1643–1669 (2015); doi:10.1038/nprot.2015.103; published online 01 October 2015 RNAs play key roles in many ...

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 ...

In 2015, researchers at UC San Francisco found a structure inside of tumor cells that biologists had never seen before. Even more surprising, a closer examination of the structure revealed that it ...

Scientists have discovered a mysterious new structure lurking inside every human cell. These tiny structures, dubbed hemifusomes, are just 200 to 400 nanometres in diameter. To put that into ...