In his new book, “The Song of the Cell,” Siddhartha Mukherjee has taken on a subject that is enormous and minuscule at once. Even though cells are typically so tiny that you need a microscope ...

An image of human colon cancer cells, with the nuclei stained red. Siddhartha Mukherjee, who wrote about cancer in his first book, now explores the history and implications of cell science.

Pictured: a colorized transmission electron micrograph of monkeypox virus particles (green) cultivated and purified from cell culture NIAID ... officials to disregard its spread elsewhere.

That's when — roughly once a month — a single mature egg breaks through its surrounding capsule ... The eight-to-32-cell stage looks kind of like a berry, so the bundle is called a morula ...

The results have been published in Cell. Proteins ensure ... phosphorylated in certain sections. This increases the stability of the Tau protein and prolongs its lifespan. This in turn promotes ...

Aydin and his research group first separated OPA1 from cells and studied it in vitro to understand its atomic structure, which was no easy feat. When OPA1 is remodeling mitochondrial membranes in the ...

Genesis to Revelation The basic idea of Lane and Martin is that a cell's developmental fate is governed by its supply of energy. Simple prokaryotes are mostly small and consist of single cells or ...

This specialized organelle is what every biology student learns is the “powerhouse of the cell” and its formation allowed for complex organisms to evolve. “Everything more complicated than a ...

They found over 400 known cell types across 60 different tissues. Using figures from the International Commission on Radiological Protection, which has collated the mass of every tissue in a 70 ...