Stanford’s Revolutionary New Microscope Reveals Living Cells in Stunning Detail
Detail of the laser array that is part of the Interferometric Image Scanning Microscopy technology. Credit: Jim Gensheimer…
What Scientists Found Inside a 117-Year-Old Woman Reveals New Clues to Long Life
1925 portrait of Maria Branyas. Credit: Wikimedia Commons A remarkable new study of the world’s oldest verified living…
Scientists Discover Sperm Seem To Bypass a Fundamental Law of Physics
Human sperm cells may swim by exploiting unusual “odd elasticity” within their flagella, helping them move through highly…
Mouse eyes photosynthesize after plant-to-animal transplant
A chloroplast (green) dotted with the membranous stacks called thylakoid grana (black blocks). Scientists have harnessed grana to…
“Totally Unexpected” – Scientists Discover Pancreatic Cancer’s Fatal Addiction
A new study found that pancreatic cancer cells depend on inflammation triggered by damaged mitochondria and the TLR3/TRAF6…
New Discovery Challenges Decades-Old Theory of DNA Damage and Aging
Researchers have identified an overactive immune response as a major contributor to tissue degeneration in severe DNA repair…
Scientists Just Captured Killer T Cells in Action Inside Tumors
A cytotoxic T cell imaged by cryo-expansion microscopy (cryo-ExM). The colorful dots at the center are cytotoxic granules…
Scientists Turn Cancer’s Own Bacteria Against It in Breakthrough Therapy
A bacteria-inspired therapy disrupts cancer cell energy production and shows strong results in early studies. Credit: Shutterstock A…
Scientists Just Discovered the Hidden Trick That Keeps Your Cells Alive
Cells use a surprising “pearling” motion to evenly distribute mitochondrial DNA. This newly uncovered process may be key…
Scientists Debunk 100-Year-Old Belief About Brain Cells, Rewriting Textbooks
Axons are long, thin extensions of neurons that carry electrical signals away from the cell body to other…
World-First Study Reveals Human Hearts Can Regenerate After a Heart Attack
New research suggests the human heart may have a previously underappreciated ability to regenerate after a heart attack,…
Powerful Antioxidant Found To Play a Key Role in Proper Protein Folding
The ER is shown in the upper right, with disulfide-linked GSSG in the lumen. The exporter resembles the…