A surprising observation in the lab has revealed a remarkable ability in Stentor coeruleus, a single-celled organism about ...

“Neurobots” wire self-organizing circuits, pointing the way to programmable biological machines ...

A recent study has examined a label-free microscopy technique, interferometric image scanning microscopy (iISM), which is ...

A single-celled organism shows Pavlovian learning, challenging our assumptions about the origins of cognition.

Prostate cancer affects one in five Australian men, making it the most common cancer in the country. Now, researchers at the ...

As space agencies prepare for human missions to the Moon and Mars, scientists need to understand how the absence of gravity affects living cells. Now, a team of researchers has built a rugged, ...

Stratified marine systems are often characterized by a deep chlorophyll maximum (DCM); however, the taxonomic and functional dynamics of protist assemblages within this layer remain poorly understood.

With a so-called cryo plasma-FIB (Plasma Focused Ion Beam) scanning electron microscope with nanomanipulator, Goethe University in Frankfurt (Germany) is expanding its research infrastructure with a ...

But watching how the flu virus sneaks into cells has been difficult because standard microscopes can't capture these fast, tiny steps clearly. In a breakthrough study, scientists from Switzerland and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Composite of three mages from new microscope technology show a cell's replication machinery in green, already-replicated DNA is ...

Using a tiny, spherical glass lens sandwiched between two brass plates, the 17th-century Dutch microscopist Antonie van Leeuwenhoek was the first to officially describe red blood cells and sperm cells ...