New method allows scientists to 3D-print structures within cells

Researchers have developed a way to 3D print custom micrometer-sized structures directly into the interior of living cells.

Tightening the focus of subcellular snapshots: Combined approach yields better cell slices for cryoET imaging

Taking images of tiny structures within cells is tricky business. One technique, cryogenic electron tomography (cryoET), ...
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Wild new technique lets scientists 3D-print tiny structures inside cells

Scientists have crossed a startling new frontier in bioengineering: they can now fabricate intricate three-dimensional ...
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A ‘time capsule for cells’ stores the secret experiences of their past

Scientists have transformed enigmatic cell structures, called vaults, into storage units for messenger-RNA molecules made in ...
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BYU dean captures never before seen images inside living cells with innovative microscopy method

Seeing inside cells with CryoEM technology. Video produced by BYU University Communications. Producers Adam Sanders and Julie Walker. Edited by Adam Sanders. Additional footage provided by Caltech and ...

Textbooks Challenged: Scientists Discover New Mechanism of Cell Division

Scientists have uncovered a new way embryonic cells divide when conventional mechanisms fail. Cell division underpins all ...
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Synthetic Cell Structures Mimic Active Transport to Capture, Process, and Expel Material

Researchers at New York University and the University of Chicago have developed artificial, fully synthetic cell-like structures that autonomously ingest, process, and push out material, recreating an ...
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Psychedelic Micrographs Illuminate the Structures of Cells

Jack Challoner, Gills of a fish-like invertebrate (all images courtesy Jack Challoner, from ‘The Cell: A Visual Tour of the Building Block of Life‘) In 1665, when British polymathic scientist Robert ...