Scientists can peer into cells to get a limited view of their activity using microscopes and other tools. However, cells and ...

Some time around 1683, amateur Dutch scientist Antonie van Leeuwenhoek scraped the plaque from between his teeth and peered at it through a home-made microscope.

A new kind of microscope is giving scientists a way to watch life inside cells with a clarity that feels almost unfair.

To ensure our bodies function correctly, the cells that compose them must operate properly. Imagine a cell as a bustling city ...

The origin of life on Earth becomes even more fascinating and complex as we peer into the mysterious world of viruses. Said to have existed since living cells first appeared, these microscopic ...

Goethe University Frankfurt (Germany) ceremonially commissioned a state-of-the-art cryo plasma-FIB scanning electron microscope with nanomanipulator worth more than 5 million euros on Thursday. The ...

The evolution of endocytosis — the mechanism by which eukaryotic cells internalize molecules from the plasma membrane and recycle them back to the cell surface or target them to lysosomes for ...

Organelles are entities within a eukaryotic cell that have a specialised function. Examples of organelles include the nucleus, the endoplasmic reticulum, the Golgi, mitochondria, vacuoles or lysosomes ...

Science X is a network of high quality websites with most complete and comprehensive daily coverage of the full sweep of science, technology, and medicine news ...