Vaults are mysterious cellular structures that can be genetically engineered to store information about a cell’s history.

Human cells are extremely small and tightly packed – at about 20 micrometers across, ...

After centuries of mapping the human body in ever-finer detail, scientists are still making discoveries. Here we are, in 2025, and a previously unknown cellular structure that could be vital to our ...

Custom polymer structures can now be 3D printed inside living cells using laser-based fabrication, opening paths to intracellular sensors, cell tracking tags, and embedded microlasers.

The discovery of an unknown organelle inside our cells could open the door to new treatments for devastating inherited diseases. The organelle, a type of specialized structure, has been dubbed a ...

Researchers at Colorado State University have determined how to use artificial intelligence to modify antibodies so they act ...

Fluorescent nanodiamonds release a small molecule inside breast cancer cells and use quantum sensing to watch how the drug changes local cell chemistry in real time. (Nanowerk Spotlight) When a ...

In a recently published study, researchers at Fox Chase Cancer Center revealed for the first time that cancer cells can evade anti-cancer drugs by entering and surviving within bone marrow fibroblasts ...

No one saw the blob takeover coming. In 2009 a team of biophysicists led by Anthony A. Hyman of the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics in Dresden, Germany, were studying ...