When oil is dropped in water, the oil droplets stay separate. Cells can also use a system like this to separate or gather ...

The functions of biomolecules, including lipids, nucleic acids and especially proteins are determined to a great extent by their structure. This structure–function relationship is a foundation of many ...

The researchers' findings, reported in Nature Structural & Molecular Biology, which involve radial spoke 3 (RS3), help answer some fundamental questions about how motile cilia work and could ...

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, ...

A new imaging approach is shedding light on one of cell biology’s most elusive questions: how lipids are organized and sorted within membranes.

Integrating proteomics with systems biology reveals complex cellular networks, improving disease mechanisms understanding and precision medicine applications.

A set of new imaging tools now allows researchers to see how specific fat molecules, called phospholipids, are distributed ...

Sitting above each kidney are two small endocrine glands about the size of walnuts. These are the adrenal glands, responsible ...

TIRF imaging of CRISPR-edited human cells shows dynein–dynactin complexes move processively with motility parameters consistent with the presence of multi-dynein assemblies (>one dynein heavy chain ...

A central question in molecular biology is how cells protect their chromosomes from damage during repeated cell division. At ...