While cryo-electron tomography (cryo-ET) was first envisioned in 1968, the advances the Mahamid group are bringing to this 3D method for studying…
Studying cancers means also knowing what healthy cells look like. In this case, mesenchymal stromal cells (MSCs) from healthy bone marrow are a bit…
Members of an EMBL-led research group with collaborators in Estonia and Russia have built and trained a deep learning model to better understand how…
Beautiful flashes of blue colour help light the way for researchers to study cells in fruit fly larva that provide oxygen to…
Today’s picture of the week is not only a colourful one, it is also a snapshot of the vast number of shapes that the cells inside an animal body…
This image may bring to mind a patchwork quilt, or a picture taken from a gallery of abstract paintings, but the artisan behind it is actually Mother…
What are the bare essentials of life, the indispensable ingredients required to produce a cell that can survive on its own? Can we describe the…
Researchers at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg, Germany, came a step closer to understanding how cells close gaps not…
What at the first sight could be pictures of planets or other cosmic structures are actually microscope images of balls (cysts) of human kidney…
Blood cells have limited lifespans, which means that they must be continually replaced by calling up reserves and turning these into the blood cell…
Eyes are among the earliest recognisable structures in an embryo; they start off as bulges on the sides of tube-shaped tissue that will eventually…
Achieving equality between the sexes can be a challenge even for single cells. Since evolution began removing bits of male DNA to create the…
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