Making a living brain transparent and watching its neurons fire without disturbing their function-sounds like science fiction ...

Extracellular vesicles (EVs) are tiny biological bubbles that carry nucleic acids and proteins between cells, playing an ...

A research team led by Sahand Jamal Rahi at EPFL’s Laboratory of the Physics of Biological Systems has introduced a new ...

In the evolutionary history of life, the ability of a cell to separate its inner world from the external environment was an ...

Large protein machines in the body carry out many of the cell's most essential tasks, from energy production to the ...

Biomolecular condensates were long believed to be simple liquid blobs inside cells. Researchers have now uncovered that some are actually supported by fine protein filaments forming an internal ...

Researchers have created a method called optovolution that uses light to guide the evolution of proteins with dynamic behaviors. By engineering yeast cells so their survival depended on proteins ...

Inside each of your cells lies a nucleus, its master command center. Protected inside each nucleus are your chromosomes, ...

Microglia (immune cells) and the RANK protein are essential for triggering puberty and maintaining fertility in the brain.