How much does life weigh? It sounds like a strange question, but to biologists it makes all the sense in the world. Yeast ...

Biologists have long treated cell membranes as passive barriers, thin skins that separate the chemistry of life from the ...

Synthetic hydrogel-based assay to study 3D confined cell migration. Credit: Science Advances (2024). DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adm9195 Eukaryotic cells—that is, cells with a nucleus—possess an astounding ...

Researchers from the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences and collaborating institutions have developed a novel ...

The fundamental nature of living things challenges assumptions that physicists have held for centuries.

The rapid expansion of the solar cell industry is an important factor in combating global warming and realizing a sustainable energy future. As conventional silicon-based cells approach their ...

Looking under the microscope, a group of cells slowly moves forward in a line, like a train on the tracks. The cells navigate through complex environments. A new approach now shows how they do this ...

A new model shows how transport resistance limits solar cell efficiency and how better fill factor predictions could help us develop more powerful photovoltaics One light bulb turned on (Courtesy: ...

Inspiration on the blackboard. Edouard Hannezo (back) and David Brückner (front) brainstorm mathematical equations. They use one of the many blackboards found all over the ISTA campus, which allows ...