Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee still remembers the first cell he cultured: It was an immune cell from a mouse, and he had grown it in a petri dish. As he examined it through a microscope, the cell moved ...

Eventually, the bulk of cells form into a very organized structure called the blastocyst, from which all future organs and tissues develop. The entire process is termed morphogenesis. "These early ...

Billions of years of evolution have made modern cells incredibly complex ... They are made of fatty molecules called lipids that naturally form thin sheets. Vesicles form when these sheets curl into a ...

Like a child peering through a kaleidoscope, a biologist gazing through a microscope may be amazed by the beautiful geometric patterns formed by cells. However, these cell arrangements do not form ...

A newly identified form of regulated cell death, known as cuproptosis, may be a critical mechanism linking copper imbalance to vascular damage. The research is published in the journal ...

Not all brain cells are found in the brain. For example, a team at Caltech has identified two distinct types of neurons in the abdomens of mice that appear to control different aspects of digestion.