Lymphocytes, white blood cells crucial to the body's immune system, can swim, according to new research by a team of researchers from various French universities.
Scientists appear to have cracked the conundrum of how the highly toxic positively charged ammonium ion (NH4+) manages to be transported across a hydrophobic membrane into and out of cells.
Researchers studying the body's ability to produce antibodies for defense against novel viruses have found that the 3D structure of chromatin controls which gene segments are available for recombination.
From a chance glance by a hiker on a storied Grand Canyon trail, a paleontologist and colleagues managed to trace the footsteps of an animal that lived more than 300 million years ago, and unearth a previously unknown — and surprising — evolutionary quirk.
Scientists combining light pulses with traditional microscopy have demonstrated how it is possible to capture vastly clearer images of the quantum world.