How does the collective interplay of many individual cells give rise to a perfectly shaped organism? This question lies at ...

Epithelial tissue forms the outermost protective barrier of tissues and organs and is therefore prone to wounds and injuries.

This work appears in Nature Chemistry. Life on Earth requires lipid membranes -- the structure of a cell that houses its interior mechanics and acts as a scaffold for many biological reactions.

Origin-recognition complex (ORC) plays an unexpectedly broad role in the regulation of human cell gene expression, according ...

Scientists achieved “a milestone” by charting the activity and structure of 200,000 cells in a mouse brain and their 523 million connections. A neuron extends an axon to make contact with ...

Microscopic beads exploit the decreased deformability in red blood cells from older participants to distinguish them from ...

When a wound on the skin creates a gap, the epithelial cells of the skin, surrounding the wound, move in a concerted fashion to close this gap. The boundaries of these gaps can have different ...