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 ...

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

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Scientists instruct the computer to record information about various parameters on the cell including its size and rough composition. Detectors record information about the intensity and scattering ...

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 ...