With the long-term goal of creating living cells from non-living components, scientists in the field of synthetic biology work with RNA origami. This tool uses the multifunctionality of the natural ...

The cell biology of Trypanosoma brucei has garnered extensive interest due to its unique architecture and its role as the causative agent of African trypanosomiasis. The parasite is distinguished by a ...

Biology textbooks may need a revision, say Johns Hopkins Medicine scientists, who present new evidence that an armlike structure of mammalian brain cells may be a different shape than scientists have ...

Think back to that basic biology class you took in high school. You probably learned about organelles, those little “organs” inside cells that form compartments with individual functions. For example, ...

Biology has always been an unruly science. Cells divide when they want to. Genes switch on and off like temperamental lights.

Inside every living cell, proteins and membranes are in constant motion, reshaping, colliding, and flexing as they keep an ...