For a few weeks in 2017, Wanda Kukulski found herself binge-watching an unusual kind of film: videos of the insides of cells. They were made using a technique called cryo-electron tomography (cryo-ET) ...

New confocal reflectance interferometric microscope enables scientists to probe nuclear membrane mechanics within intact cells in a label-free fashion Nuclear mechanics is known to play a key role in ...

For a long time, the origin of complex life has seemed like a chapter torn out of the book of biology. The middle has been ...

An exchange of genetic material that occurred when ancient giant viruses infected ancient eukaryotic cells could have caused the nucleus of the eukaryotic cell -- its defining feature -- to form. A ...