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

Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have identified a protein that causes human cell membranes to break open in a ...

Dynamin is a protein that plays a central role in endocytosis—the process where cells internalize substances by wrapping them in cell membrane vesicles. For a vesicle to detach, the neck of the ...

Winter has returned, so is the flu season accompanied by flu, fever, aching limbs and runny nose,that has forced scientists ...

Zap-and-freeze imaging captures real-time synaptic vesicle cycling in human brain tissue, offering new clues to Parkinson’s disease mechanisms.

The custom-built microscopy system allowed researchers to film the very instant an influenza virus attaches itself to a cell ...

The cell membrane, which contains a hydrophilic exterior and a hydrophobic interior, opens and closes ion channels like a water faucet and converts a physicochemical stimulus into an electrical signal ...

Scientists film flu viruses surfing and being pulled into human cells in stunning real-time footage. The cell doesn’t wait, ...

Why do nerve cells die in dementia - and can this process be slowed down? Researchers from the Technical University of Munich ...

Scientists have captured a never-before-seen, high-resolution look at influenza’s stealthy invasion of human cells, revealing ...