Nearly 150 years ago, scientists began to imagine how information might flow through the brain based on the shapes of neurons ...

A team of researchers at the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology, in the U.K., has re-examined an old ...

Scripps Research scientists used a cryo-electron ... where cell biologists Michael and Mary Reedy let him tinker. Before long, Ward was helping build the components of microscope cameras and ...

The researchers identified the structure of this machine, the mitochondrial pyruvate carrier (MPC), and 50 years since its discovery, have shown how it operates like the lock on a canal to transport ...

Fifty years since its discovery, scientists have finally worked out how a molecular machine found in mitochondria, the 'powerhouses' of our cells, allows us to make the fuel we need from sugars, a ...

How we think, feel, see, talk and move are due to neurons, or nerve cells, in the brain ... who helped pioneer electron microscopy to study neural connections. WATCH: California initiative ...

and cryo-electron tomography (cryo-ET) are powerful techniques that allow scientists to better understand the intricacies of biology, providing atomic-level insights that reveal how viruses, proteins ...

Double fluorescence immunolabeling and immuno-electron microscopy (IEM) revealed colocalization of HTT ... represented by the silver-enhanced gold particles (red arrowheads), in AV/LY in cell bodies, ...