Modern cells are complex chemical entities with cytoskeletons, finely regulated internal and external molecules, and genetic ...
Scientists have long known that cellular membranes vary in thickness, but measuring those differences inside actual cells has ...
Lipids are essential components of cellular membranes, contributing to the basic structure and function. The most common lipids in membranes are phospholipids, which form a bilayer with hydrophilic ...
Cells do more than carry out chemical reactions. New theoretical work suggests they may also generate usable electrical ...
Human cells are extremely small and tightly packed – at about 20 micrometers across, ...
Few questions have captivated humankind more than the origin of life on Earth. How did the first living cells come to exist? How did these early protocells develop the structural membranes necessary ...
Biological processes that govern our lives are many, intertwined, and often difficult to understand. They involve countless ...
The chemical reactions on which life depends need a place to happen. That place is the cell. All the things which biology recognises as indisputably alive are either cells or conglomerations of cells ...
Custom polymer structures can now be 3D printed inside living cells using laser-based fabrication, opening paths to intracellular sensors, cell tracking tags, and embedded microlasers.