Cell Biology

Cell biology includes the study of the behaviour, function and structure of cells. It focuses on the concept that cells are a basic unit of life and are required for all life processes. Going off the assumption that a cell is a fundamental unit of life helps researchers pursue a further understanding of how live cells function, and what causes cell division, disease, and other cell issues.

What is Cell Biology?

The study of cell biology reveals the fundamental mechanisms of life, offering insights into disease and advancing therapeutic strategies for improved health.

Overview

This hub is where you’ll find all the latest information, research, and news on cell biology, how the study of cell biology can help facilitate the understanding of diseases and their development, as well as the structural and functional properties of a cell. If you search through our list of articles and news pieces you will find a wealth of information.

Stem Cell Controversy

What is non-coding RNA (ncRNA)?

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Feature Articles

In our featured articles section, you will find plenty of literature on cannabis analysis and testing, with common topics being recent advancements, molecular biology of diabetes, antibiotics, and plenty of other interesting titles.

What is the Pentose Phosphate Pathway?

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Gut Microbes in Determining Food Allergies in Children

Cell Identification: The Basic Principles

Uses of Human Pluripotent Stem Cells

The Revolution of Synthetic Biology

Transposons and Their Role in Causing Diseases

Use of Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) in Forensics

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B Cell Development

Competing Endogenous RNA in Human Disease

What are RNA Sensors?

Treating Disease Using Your Own Stem Cells

Clinical Applications of Plasmapheresis

Hypoxia in Breast Cancer

What is Cancer Biotherapeutics?

Applications of 3D printing in Drug Delivery

The Structure and Function of the 5' UTR

Cell Staining Techniques

What is Epitranscriptomics?

Utilizing Cell Lines to Derive Chemosensitivity

Proving Monoclonality with PCR

Mitochondrial and Nuclear Genome Interactions

Utilizing Cell Lines to Derive Chemosensitivity

What is Epidemiology?

Cellular Choreographers: the Chromosomal Passenger Complex

What are Stress Granules?

Endothelial Cell Biology

Protocell Uses in Biology

Differentiating Cell Types in Forensic Cases

What are G-Protein-Coupled Receptors?

Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell Technology

Analyzing Allelic Expression in Cells

Mutant Splicing Factors as Oncogenes

What are Mesenchymal Stem Cells?

Why does Cell Polarity Matter?

Single-Cell Sequencing for the Treatment of Alzheimer's

What is Biosafety and Why is it Important?

How could mRNA be Used to Fight Diseases?

How Does a Coulter Counter Work?

Artificial Tissue Implants: Understanding Cell Adhesion to Polymeric Substances

Cellular Aging

Cell Structure and Antibiotic Resistance

The Steps of Protein Synthesis

What is Bioprinting?

RNA-based Methods for Body Fluid and Cell Type Identification

Protein Production: Initiation, Elongation and Termination

What Is Cryoprecipitate?

Cell Line Authentication using DNA Barcoding

Cell Biology and Toxicology

Effects of Cell Death on Neurodegeneration

How could Stem Cells be Used in Drug Discovery?

The Future of Bioengineered Products

Creating Biomaterials that can Heal bone

Stem Cell Properties

Keratinocyte Stem Cells: An Overview

What is Stem Cell Banking?

Molecular Cell Biology of Diabetes

Single-Molecule Imaging Techniques: Shedding Light on Molecular Dynamics

What are Vesicants?

RNA Polymerases Across the Kingdoms of Life

GPCR Signaling Pathways

What is Competing Endogenous RNA?

The Cell Cycle

Application of Magnetic Nanoparticles in the Detection of Nucleic Acid

Applications of Chemoattractants

Ghost Cytometry - Revolutionizing Cell Sorting

‘Dark matter’ DNA and Cancer

How to Generate Stable Cell Lines

What are the Differences between Eukaryotes and Prokaryotes?

How to Generate Stable Cell Lines

A History of Developmental Biology

What is Synthetic Biology?

Insight into Cell Cultures and Their Challenges

How are Artificial Cells Produced?

Chirality in Biochemistry

Cell Fate Determination: How Cells Choose Their Paths in Developing Tissues

In-Cell Structural Biology- Future Applications

Mysteries Behind Multiciliated Cells

What are the differences between Stem Cells and Somatic Cells?

In-Cell Structural Biology- Future Applications

What is a Protocell?

Insight into the Function of the Peroxisome

Role of Macrophages in Cancer

What are Neutrophils?

lncRNAs in Human Disease

The Biology of Behavior

What are CAR T cells?

Human vs. Animal Cells for Disease Models

Diversity in Cellular Cardiac Tissue

Sustainability within Synthetic Biology

What is Cell-Cell Adhesion?

Beads on a String: Conflicting Views on Chromatin Architecture

Taxonomy, Nomenclature, and Classification: Key Terms in Biology and the Life Sciences

Redefining Materials Using Synthetic Biology

What are Stem Cells?

lncRNAs in Human Disease

T Cell Development

What is Macrophage Polarization?

Cellular Engineering: Cutting-Edge Cell Manipulation Technologies

What are the differences between B and T Cells?

The Removal of Senescent Cells to Improve Organ Function

Enhancing the Function of Mitochondria Using Deep Red Light

Applications of Osteoclasts in Bone Repair

What is Cell Culture Forensics?

Diploblast vs. Triploblast: Unveiling the Secrets of Early Animal Development

Pluripotent Stem Cells

Folding Matters: Unraveling the Impact of Protein Folding on Biological Processes

Using Aptamers to Detect Cancer

Bacterial Influences on Breast Tumorigenesis: Do Probiotics Have a Role in Therapy?

Insight into Tissue Repair and Regeneration

Advancements in Buccal Cell Collection

What are Zwitterions?

Diversity in Cellular Cardiac Tissue

What are Regulatory T Cells?

Insulin Signaling Pathway

Cell Biology of Neurogenesis

What Is Synthetic Embryology?

What are Inflammatory Cell Death Regulators?

A Guide to Understanding Multicellularity

What are Biofilms?

Latest Cell Biology News and Research

For the latest news from the world of cell biology, have a read through the articles in this section. We compile a range of articles on new discoveries, research papers and other cell advances.

How Mitochondrial Damage Accelerates Stem Cell Aging

Hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs), the cells that produce all blood cell types, start to lose their efficacy as one ages, which eventually reduces the ability to maintain healthy blood and a robust immune system.

17 Apr 2026

Freudenberg Launches Tacnera® at EWMA 2026: Technology Enables Next Generation of Silicone-Based Foam Dressings

With Tacnera®, Freudenberg Performance Materials (Freudenberg) is presenting a new technology for silicone foam dressings used in advanced wound care.

From Freudenberg Performance Materials 17 Apr 2026

MIT Chemists Discover How Membrane Lipids Drive Uncontrolled Cancer Cell Growth

Cells are enveloped by a lipid membrane that gives them structure and provides a barrier between the cell and its environment. However, evidence has recently emerged suggesting that these membranes do more than simply provide protection - they also influence the behavior of the protein receptors embedded in them.

17 Apr 2026

Neuronal Lipid Metabolism Plays a Key Role in Preventing Metabolic Disorders

The brain is the body's command centre, and neurons are the workhorses that carry out its commands. They transmit signals that regulate many bodily functions, including key metabolic processes such as appetite, body weight and energy expenditure.

17 Apr 2026

Scientists Uncover the Molecular Fingerprints of mRNA Vaccine-Induced T Cells

The advent of mRNA vaccines against SARS-CoV-2 in 2020 changed the course of the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, the Nobel-prize–winning technology is being adapted to fight cancer, with mRNA vaccines in clinical trials for melanoma, small cell lung cancer and bladder cancer, among others, opening the door to new ways of preventing and treating the disease.

17 Apr 2026

New Strategy Enables 3D Tissue Engineering Without the Use of Scaffolds

Biological tissues have a remarkable ability to organize and change shape, driven by forces generated by their own cells. One of the major challenges in bioengineering is harnessing this natural behavior to design synthetic living materials capable of adopting predetermined shapes. However, precisely controlling how a tissue behaves and directing its internal forces to adopt the desired shape remains a significant scientific challenge.

17 Apr 2026

Single-Molecule Imaging Reveals How Anabaena Maintains Its Rectangular Shape

Photosynthetic bacteria helped shape Planet Earth. Among them are cyanobacteria that produced the oxygen in our atmosphere and made complex life possible, captivating scientists for decades. Now, researchers at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) report a surprising new discovery-a system thought to separate DNA has developed to sculpt the shape of the cell in cyanobacteria instead. The results, published in Science, shed light on how protein systems evolve and how multicellularity emerged in this type of ecologically essential bacteria.

17 Apr 2026

Researchers Uncover How the Immune System Teaches the Brain to Avoid Toxins

Researchers from the University of Bonn and University Hospital Bonn uncover vital mechanism for survival.

17 Apr 2026

Bio-Techne Introduces Streamlined Brand Architecture to Help Customers Navigate Solutions Faster and With Greater Clarity

Bio-Techne Corporation, a global provider of life science research tools, analytical instruments, and diagnostics, today announced a streamlined brand architecture designed to enable scientists and clinicians to more easily find the answers they need based on their application and stage of research.

From Bio-Techne 16 Apr 2026

Scientists Uncover How "Sorting Hubs" Clear Damaged Proteins From Cells

Inside every cell, a cleanup operation runs around the clock. Proteins are constantly damaged by wear and tear. Some can be repaired, while others must be dismantled and recycled. When this system fails, damaged proteins accumulate in clumps associated with diseases such as Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) and Frontotemporal Dementia.

16 Apr 2026

Researchers Develop 3D Organoids that Reflect the Complexity of Brain Tumors

Efforts to identify and evaluate next-generation therapeutics for pediatric brain tumors are easily stymied by the quality and availability of laboratory models for research. To address this issue, scientists at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital developed patient-derived tumor organoids and tumor organoid xenografts that accurately reflect the biologic underpinnings of embryonal brain tumors.

16 Apr 2026

New Technology Tracks Real-Time Gene Activity to Find Common Disease Targets

Diseases like cancer or neurodegeneration are known to arise from genetic misfires. But treating such complex conditions hasn't been simply a matter of identifying the malfunctioning genes involved. With hundreds of genetic mutations spanning diverse pathways at play, connecting the dots between a constellation of mutations and a specific outcome has proved to be enormously difficult.

16 Apr 2026

"Zombie" Macrophages Accumulate in Aging Tissues and Diseased Livers

UCLA researchers have identified a rogue population of immune cells that quietly accumulates in aging tissues and in the livers of people with fatty liver disease. Clearing these cells, they found, dramatically reduced inflammation and reversed liver damage in mice - even while the animals remained on an unhealthy diet.

16 Apr 2026

Genetic Barcodes Reveal Early Origins of Human Peripheral Nerves

Millions of neurons branch throughout our bodies, keeping them in close communication with our brains. This peripheral network begins to take shape long before birth, as the cells of a growing embryo move into position and adopt their specialized roles.

15 Apr 2026

Brain Discovery Links Interhemispheric Communication to Spatial Memory

A team led by the Institute for Neurosciences (IN), a joint center of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) and Miguel Hernández University of Elche (UMH), has identified a brain circuit essential for spatial memory.

15 Apr 2026

Scientists Discover New Rare Genetic Disease Using Whole Exome Sequencing

Scientists at Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute and an international team of collaborators used a genetic sequencing technique called whole exome sequencing to discover a new rare genetic disease.

15 Apr 2026

Identifying Somatic Driver Mutations in Thyroid Autoimmune Disease

According to recent studies, immune cell DNA mutations that eliminate the immune system's natural brakes may be the cause of autoimmune disorders.

15 Apr 2026

How Single-Cell Proteomics Could Unlock the Rules That Govern Cells

This review shows how single-cell proteomics by mass spectrometry has advanced from an uncertain idea to a rapidly improving toolkit that can now quantify thousands of protein groups from individual cells. It argues that direct protein measurements, combined with better sample preparation, instrumentation, and multiplexing, could help researchers build more mechanistic models of cell biology while pushing throughput far higher.

13 Apr 2026

Kinesin Motor Protein Variations Control Cargo Specificity in Neuronal Transport

Intracellular transport is a vital process that allows cells to move proteins and other molecules to specific locations.

13 Apr 2026

Early Epigenetic Changes and Gut Microbiome Interact to Shape Neurodevelopment

The gut microbiome and epigenetics-molecular switches that turn genes on or off-are intertwined, and both contribute to neurodevelopment, finds a study publishing April 10 in the Cell Press journal Cell Press Blue.

13 Apr 2026

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