The human body has always been crowded with microscopic passengers, from bacteria to viruses and fungi. Over the past two ...

A new organelle has been discovered in human cells — and scientists call it a "hemifusome." Like the full-size organs in our bodies, the organelles within cells are specialized structures that carry ...

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, ...

A 'time capsule' technology that records cellular activity in real-time within a cellular organelle has been developed. It is ...

There’s unexpected movement in the world of cell biology — specifically, with the energy factories known as mitochondria. Ever since they were discovered in the mid-nineteenth century, mitochondria ...

The lab has developed ultra-small DNA nanodevices that can function inside living cells, illuminating biological processes.

Prior to using this narrative, have learners create their own model of a cell in their notebooks using whatever background information or experience they might have. While exploring the narrative, ...

Advanced light microscopy techniques are giving scientists a new understanding of human biology and what goes wrong in diseases Katarina Zimmer, Knowable Magazine Innovative techniques are helping ...

Understanding the human cell is vital to progress in the life sciences and to human health. Cells are the smallest, most basic unit of life responsible for all of life’s processes. A typical human ...

When war breaks out, power plants are attacked first along with military facilities like air defense networks. The same thing happens in the war inside the human body. Cancer cells have been found to ...