A collaborative team of four professors and several graduate students from the Departments of Chemistry and Biochemical ...

Scientists have long known that cellular membranes vary in thickness, but measuring those differences inside actual cells has ...

Cells do more than carry out chemical reactions. New theoretical work suggests they may also generate usable electrical ...

Protein translocation is an essential, nano-scale dynamic process that facilitates the movement of proteins across cellular ...

The constant, energy-driven motion inside living cells may generate electricity in a way no one fully recognized before.

By combining atomic force microscopy (AFM) with a Hadamard productbased image reconstruction algorithm, scientists ...

When the cell's recycling stations, the lysosomes, start leaking, it can become dangerous. Toxic waste risks spreading and ...

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.

Precise methods for shredding or repairing and replacing specific cancer-causing proteins in a malignant cell, developed at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, could have applications beyond ...