The body’s “killer” T cells don’t just attack—they strike with astonishing precision, forming a tiny, highly organized ...
Nature is replete with slender filaments that bend and coil—from climbing grape vines, to folded proteins, to elephant trunks that can pick up a peanut but also take down a tree.
Every cell in the human body squeezes over six feet of DNA into a minuscule speck invisible to the naked eye—like compressing ...
In tissue engineering, the tiniest bit of improper force can harm a living culture. Spheroids—3D clumps of cells—can be used ...
Recent advances in genomics, genome editing, and imaging technologies have revealed that neural activity can rapidly alter chromatin accessibility, ...
Researchers at Princeton University have created a new kind of computing system that combines living brain cells with advanced electronics. This unusual device works in three dimensions and can be ...
A cluster of rat neurons, grown on a chip in a Japanese laboratory, just learned to generate a sine wave on command. Across ...