Ellis L. Reinherz is in the Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA, and at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, USA. Immune cells called T cells have ...

The cell nucleus is considered to be the control center of vital cellular processes, but its material properties continue to puzzle scientists. An international research team has now developed a new ...

Cellular membrane proteins play many important roles throughout the body, including transporting substances in and out of the ...

Scientists at Feinberg are reshaping scientific understanding of the cell's tiniest components—structures once thought to be static, now revealed to be dynamic engines of cellular life. As they probe ...

He imaginative power of nature certainly could not have produced anything more flexible than the cell to account for every complex morphology of the organic world. In the same way that the seven notes ...

As power plants and energy stores, mitochondria are essential components of almost all cells in plants, fungi and animals. Until now, it has been assumed that these functions underlie a static ...

Researchers have found a new, dynamic protein structure in cells. Every cell contains millions of protein molecules. Some of them have the ability to phase-separate to form non-membrane-bound ...

More than 1.5 billion years ago, a momentous thing happened: Two small, primitive cells became one. Perhaps more than any event—barring the origin of life itself—this merger radically changed the ...