Cell-to-cell communication through nanosized particles, working as messengers and carriers, can now be analyzed in a whole new way, thanks to a new method involving CRISPR gene-editing technology. The ...

A research team led by Prof. Xu Pingyong from the Institute of Biophysics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has developed an innovative approach to visualize and rapidly screen small peptide knockins ...

A cell’s morphology comprises vast amounts of information on cell health and differentiation state and yields insight into cell phenotype. Biologists utilize this information on a daily basis to aid ...

Our cells are constantly communicating, and scientists have developed an efficient way to find out what messages they are sending in protein-packed biological suitcases called exosomes. These ...

Movie 1: Movement of single nucleosomes in living human cells. The movie shows nucleosome fluctuations in euchromatin (left), where gene expression is active, and in heterochromatin (right), where ...

A novel cell-specific method to identify proteins released by cells could lead to advancements in tracking diseases like cancer. Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute and Imperial College London ...

Proliferation assays provide quantitative evaluation of a cell population’s viability and growth, and are a crucial aspect of cancer biology research. There are various types of proliferation assays, ...

Researchers at Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT-Italian Institute of Technology) have developed an innovative microscopy ...