Energy-making chloroplasts from algae have been inserted into hamster cells, enabling the cells to photosynthesize light, according to new research in Japan. It was previously thought that combining ...

The cardiac ryanodine receptor (RyR2) constitutes the molecular basis of the process of calcium-induced calcium release where activation of RyR2s can be locally regenerative. Here, we present purely ...

This fluorescence image shows chloroplasts (magenta colored) successfully incorporated into the hamster cells, with other features of the animal cell also highlighted (nuclei in light blue and ...

Advanced light microscopy techniques are giving scientists a new understanding of human biology and what goes wrong in diseases Katarina Zimmer, Knowable Magazine Key takeaways: Super-resolution ...

High-speed, low-phototoxicity volumetric imaging is essential to quantify host–pathogen interactions in marine animal cell models, such as internalization of bacteria by Atlantic salmon skin ...

Deep inside a small, windowless room at the University of California, Berkeley, two microscopes are quietly capturing some of the most detailed views of life ever recorded. Day and night, they collect ...

Nearly 100 years ago, a seemingly simple discovery revolutionized the microscope. The introduction of phase contrast, which ...

An example of a cell image before and after segmentation, a process which allows researchers to distinguish single cells from each other and their background. Observing individual cells through ...

Researchers can see in 3D how signaling proteins cluster on the surface of endosomes (gray) using a new microscopy tool kit. Credit: ACS Nano Biologists depend on microscopes to see what their cell ...

Cells are the smallest unit of life and the building blocks for all organisms. Each component of a cell has its own function. Animal and plant cells differ and they have similarities. Nucleus, cell ...

In blood cancers such as chronic lymphocytic leukemia, B cells of the immune system multiply uncontrollably. One form of therapy involves labeling the CD20 protein on the surface of the B cells with ...