Phytoplankton, tiny plant-like organisms in the ocean, are incredibly important for life on Earth. They're a major food ...

Flexible solar cells that do not contain any rare earth metal are paving the way for the development of low-cost, efficient ...

Researchers discovered the importance of an enzyme that promotes growth of certain lung cancers. Lung cancer is a ...

while keeping a connection to light microscopy." So far, Fiore's new direction is paying off. The extracellular matrix supports and gives structure to our cells and tissues: It provides a scaffold ...

You should not look through the microscope to do this. Line it up so that the specimen - if you can see it - is in the centre of the stage, where the light ... images. When first examining cells ...

Biological motors, which aid microorganism movement in fluids, are composed of two components -- the rotor and stators. Despite much research, the exact molecular mechanism underlying stator function ...

In their study published in Nature Communications, researchers identified an unusual type of brain cell they named “ovoid ...

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

Researchers have discovered a new type of neuron that plays a fundamental role in recognition memory -- how the brain registers the difference between new and familiar objects and forms long-term ...