Scientists have developed Rhobo6, a light microscopy probe that reveals extracellular matrix structures in live tissues, ...

Scientists have found that an increase in water salinity in the cells of the marine diatom Nitzschia weakens the connections ...

A new version of Cellpose -- the popular tool that maps the boundaries of diverse cells in microscopy images -- now works on less-than-perfect pictures that are noisy, blurry, or undersampled.

Kim Morgan has spent the last decade getting really, really close up to blood cells, skin flakes and more. Her artwork using ...

Protein translocation is an essential, nano-scale dynamic process that facilitates the movement of proteins across cellular ...

Electron microscopy images reveal crucial structures and mechanisms within the molecular machinery that certain bacteria use ...

A research team led by Professor Kevin Tsia, program director of the Biomedical Engineering Program under the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Hong Kong (HKU), has developed an AI-driven ...

In the mid-1670s, Johannes Swammerdam, a Dutch biologist, peered through his microscope at a honeybee's brain and drew what ...

In their effort to answer a decades-old biological question about how the hepatitis B virus (HBV) is able to establish ...

This important study examines the role of pericytes in patterning the zebrafish blood-brain barrier (BBB) and controlling its permeability. Using pdgfrb mutant zebrafish models lacking brain pericytes ...

Cancer cells work together to source nutrients from their environment -- a cooperative process that was previously overlooked by scientists but may be a promising target for treating cancer.

Cancer cells have recently been shown to collaborate to obtain vital nutrients from their environment, a phenomenon that was ...