Scientists have finally watched influenza viruses break into living human cells in real time, catching the microscopic ...

We know that the process of viral uptake into cells begins with interactions between proteins hemagglutinin and neuraminidase on the virus’s surface and sialic acid on the cell membrane, which trigger ...

RNA is usually portrayed as a molecule that works deep inside the cell, helping to turn genetic information into proteins.

RNA is thought to be a stay-at-home kind of molecule, often comfortably confined within the cell’s interior. So, when RNA molecules were detected on the surface of several cell types, researchers ...

Researchers have developed a theoretical framework that shows how living cell membranes can generate electricity from ...

Many biological processes are regulated by electricity—from nerve impulses to heartbeats to the movement of molecules in and ...

Scientists have captured an unprecedented, real-time view of influenza viruses as they move across and slip inside human ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. The bottom of the ocean is cold, dark, and under extreme pressure. It is not a place suited to the physiology of us surface dwellers: At ...