The human intestine is a soft, flexible tissue. Yet the environments traditionally used to culture intestinal cells in the laboratory are strikingly different from those found in the body.

Researchers from Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (HHU) have—in collaboration with colleagues from Ludwig Maximilian University (LMU) in Munich—analyzed the complex biochemical processes that ...

Now, in a new study published in Nature Microbiology, researchers have found that the bacterium Bacillus subtilis can ...

Artificial cells assembled from lifeless chemical components have been created to ingest nutrients, grow, divide into two, and even produce offspring. This marks the first instance of constructing a ...

Researchers shifted the focus to the internal properties of the membrane itself, specifically its viscosity, highlighting its critical role in controlling deformation and dynamics during essential ...

During cell division, adherent animal cells round up to create the precise spatial geometry required for accurate chromosome segregation, a process that depends on the coordinated remodeling of the ...

South Korean researchers from Pohang University of Science & Technology (POSTECH) have developed a new cell culture membrane that recreates not only the tissue-specific components of the intestine but ...

A three-dimensional model of different organelle membranes created from high-resolution imaging data reveals that membranes vary in thickness. Darker colors indicate thicker regions of the membrane, ...