Researchers at the University of Twente and Utrecht University have packed rigid, rod-shaped particles into soft lipid ...

Scientists say they have built a cell from scratch for the first time that feeds, grows and replicates like a natural cell, a ...

If Stephen Quake gets his way, biologists in the future will spend a lot less time wielding pipettes. “Our goal,” he says, “is to create computational tools so that cell biology goes from being 90% ...

The mechanical process of cell division exerts powerful, if microscopic, forces. How do the molecular machines that power it ...

The human cell is a miserable thing to study. Tens of trillions of them exist in the body, forming an enormous and intricate network that governs every disease and metabolic process. Each cell in that ...