In this zebrafish liver, the blood vessels glitter in gold and the bile ducts gleam in neon blue. This image highlights the close relationship between the circulatory system and the cells of the liver ...

While this group of colorful neurons was grown in a dish from stem cells, in the body neurons like this are responsible for sensing pain. There is a specialized subset of sensory neurons called ...

The tendrils that extend from so-called killer T cells like the one in this image help them latch onto and destroy infected or cancerous cells in the body. Learn more Get a closer view of the image ...

What am I looking at? This is a video showing a section of the cerebral cortex from a mouse. The video was taken by moving the focal plane of a microscope from the bottom of a thick section of brain ...

This looks like a “little purple pill” but is actually a fruit fly embryo undergoing a wave of cell division, traveling from one end of the embryo to the other. Look closely and try to guess which ...

This might be a quintessential face for radio by human standards. But for this whirligig beetle, its face – especially its mandibles (mouthparts) – is perfectly designed for hunting and scavenging.

Can you guess what the colorful, bushy cells in this image are? They may look like sea anemones growing on a coral reef, but they’re actually cells from the trachea of a mouse. And you might be ...

What am I looking at? This is a time-lapse video showing the dynamic nature of the ER in monkey kidney cells as they undergo cell division. The density of the ER network is represented by the ...

This neon marvel highlights the muscles of a developing aquatic invertebrate known as a moss animal, also known as a bryozoan – a member of the phylum Bryozoa. The organism gets its common name from ...

Beauty is all around us. It is everywhere our eyes can see – in the breathtaking majesty of snowcapped mountains, in the tranquil shores of tropical beaches, and in the faces of those we love. But ...

The story of the cell cycle is often told only through the perspective of the chromosomes as they replicate and then divide. This resource beautifully illustrates the role of the cytoskeleton in that ...

Baker, of the University of Washington School of Medicine, was among three scientists honored by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences for his work on computational protein design. He shares the 2024 ...