When Jasmin Imran Alsous peered down her microscope lens, she expected to see chaos—a mishmash of tangled cells. She was viewing the inside of a male fruit fly's sperm storage organ, using a powerful ...

A research consortium has established a new framework to identify and catalog senescent cells—cells that stop dividing but remain active in the body. Because senescent cells accumulate with age and ...

CAR T-cell therapy, when someone’s immune cells are genetically engineered to kill cancer cells, is highly effective for treating certain types of cancer, but it is too expensive to be widely ...

Every human cell is surrounded by a sugar coating known as the glycocalyx. It not only interacts with its environment but also reveals a great deal about cells' internal states. Scientists at the Max ...

The semiconductor industry is undergoing a fundamental transition. Performance scaling is no longer driven primarily by transistor density, but by advanced packaging—2.5D, 3D-ICs, chiplets, and ...

The body’s “killer” T cells don’t just attack—they strike with astonishing precision, forming a tiny, highly organized contact zone that lets them destroy dangerous cells without harming their ...

Cytotoxic T lymphocytes are the body's specialized "killer" cells, precisely eliminating infected or cancerous cells. Their action relies on a specialized exchange zone called the "immune synapse," ...

Necessity is the mother of invention, and the RAM crisis is driving people to some pretty creative measures to avoid paying through the nose to upgrade their computer’s memory. Recently, we covered ...

Five years ago, scientists watched in wonder as synthetic bacteria grew and split into daughter cells. The bacteria’s extremely stripped-down genome still supported its entire life cycle. It was a ...

“Next-generation semiconductor devices are adopting three-dimensional (3D) architectures with feature sizes in the few-nanometer regime, creating a need for atomic-scale metrology to identify and ...

After completing a degree in Film, Television, and Cultural Studies at Manchester Metropolitan University, I decided to pursue my love of writing and video games by entering the world of video game ...

Most cells in the human body exist in complex three-dimensional environments, yet they are still commonly studied on flat plastic dishes. These two-dimensional cultures distort cell behavior, limiting ...