Taking images of tiny structures within cells is tricky business. One technique, cryogenic electron tomography (cryoET), shoots electrons through a frozen sample. The images formed by the electrons ...

In this guest blog, Karen McNulty Walsh of Brookhaven National Laboratory explains how Michigan Technological University ...

Key Points Years of studying natural surfaces-like the nanopillared wings of cicadas and dragonflies-have revealed a powerful ...

Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have developed a suite of algorithms to automate the counting of sister ...

Yet, in the oceans, not all viruses are bad news. Some play a helpful, even critical, role in sustaining marine life. In a ...

The protein called intelectin-2 plays another important role by reinforcing the protective mucus layer that lines the ...

Researchers have unseated a previous theory for the mechanism underlying bacterial flagella movement, changing our ...