Since the EU banned animal testing for cosmetics and their ingredients, researchers have been developing 3-D printed skin as a replacement.

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Researchers extract plant residues from ancient bedrock metates, revealing insights into early diets and traditional plant ...

Plant cells are surrounded by an intricately structured protective coat called the cell wall. It’s built of cellulose ...

Imaging wall-less plant cells every six minutes for 24 hours revealed how the cells build their protective barriers.

A breakthrough in imaging technology promises to transform our understanding of the inner workings of living cells, and ...

Researchers from the University of Technology Delft, the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience and Caltech have developed a ...

Under microscopes, scientists found that giant single-cell organisms were able to vacuum up more food when they are stuck together. By Jack Tamisiea For a creature made up of only a single cell ...

While medical centers use ultrasound daily, so far this technology has not been capable of observing body tissues at the scale of cells. Physicists have now developed a microscopy technique based on ...

While medical centers use ultrasound daily, so far this technology is not capable of observing body tissues at the scale of ...

Today, 85% of children with cancer survive to adulthood and about 1 in 3 are left infertile from chemotherapy or radiation.

About 100 cells divide every second in our body. A key protein in cell division is a protein kinase termed Plk1, because it activates other proteins involved in this process. Plk1 is also ...