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.

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Feature Articles

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What are the differences between B and T Cells?

Creating Biomaterials that can Heal bone

What Is Cryoprecipitate?

Protocell Uses in Biology

Diversity in Cellular Cardiac Tissue

A Guide to Understanding Multicellularity

Cell Biology of Neurogenesis

Hypoxia in Breast Cancer

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How to Generate Stable Cell Lines

What are Vesicants?

Utilizing Cell Lines to Derive Chemosensitivity

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

Treating Disease Using Your Own Stem Cells

Utilizing Cell Lines to Derive Chemosensitivity

lncRNAs in Human Disease

Cell Structure and Antibiotic Resistance

What is Neurobiology?

What Is Synthetic Embryology?

Single-Cell Sequencing for the Treatment of Alzheimer's

What are Mesenchymal Stem Cells?

Applications of Chemoattractants

Effects of Cell Death on Neurodegeneration

Cellular Aging

Single-Molecule Imaging Techniques: Shedding Light on Molecular Dynamics

Insight into Cell Cultures and Their Challenges

Insight into Tissue Repair and Regeneration

Role of Macrophages in Cancer

RNA Polymerases Across the Kingdoms of Life

What Role does Mitochondria Play in Eyesight?

Proving Monoclonality with PCR

Transposons and Their Role in Causing Diseases

Cell Identification: The Basic Principles

Applications of 3D printing in Drug Delivery

Why does Cell Polarity Matter?

What is Stem Cell Banking?

The Biology of Behavior

Keratinocyte Stem Cells: An Overview

What are the Differences between Eukaryotes and Prokaryotes?

The Future of Bioengineered Products

What is Bioprinting?

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

B Cell Development

Protein Production: Initiation, Elongation and Termination

Ghost Cytometry - Revolutionizing Cell Sorting

Clinical Applications of Plasmapheresis

In-Cell Structural Biology- Future Applications

Enhancing the Function of Mitochondria Using Deep Red Light

T Cell Development

Advancements in Buccal Cell Collection

How Does a Coulter Counter Work?

What is Cell-Cell Adhesion?

Using Aptamers to Detect Cancer

Molecular Cell Biology of Diabetes

What are Stress Granules?

What is non-coding RNA (ncRNA)?

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

What are the differences between Stem Cells and Somatic Cells?

Gut Microbes in Determining Food Allergies in Children

What is Synthetic Biology?

What are Inflammatory Cell Death Regulators?

Sustainability within Synthetic Biology

Stem Cell Properties

What are RNA Sensors?

How to Generate Stable Cell Lines

Diversity in Cellular Cardiac Tissue

Pluripotent Stem Cells

How could mRNA be Used to Fight Diseases?

The Revolution of Synthetic Biology

Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell Technology

Application of Magnetic Nanoparticles in the Detection of Nucleic Acid

What is Macrophage Polarization?

How are Artificial Cells Produced?

Artificial Tissue Implants: Understanding Cell Adhesion to Polymeric Substances

What are CAR T cells?

Insight into the Function of the Peroxisome

Mysteries Behind Multiciliated Cells

What is a Protocell?

Cellular Engineering: Cutting-Edge Cell Manipulation Technologies

Insulin Signaling Pathway

‘Dark matter’ DNA and Cancer

GPCR Signaling Pathways

What is Cell Culture Forensics?

Human vs. Animal Cells for Disease Models

What are G-Protein-Coupled Receptors?

Cell Biology and Toxicology

What is Competing Endogenous RNA?

Applications of Osteoclasts in Bone Repair

Stem Cell Controversy

Mitochondrial and Nuclear Genome Interactions

What are Biofilms?

Uses of Human Pluripotent Stem Cells

RNA-based Methods for Body Fluid and Cell Type Identification

Endothelial Cell Biology

The Removal of Senescent Cells to Improve Organ Function

What are Neutrophils?

lncRNAs in Human Disease

What are Zwitterions?

What is Cancer Biotherapeutics?

What are Stem Cells?

Redefining Materials Using Synthetic Biology

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

Cell Line Authentication using DNA Barcoding

What are Regulatory T Cells?

What is Epidemiology?

How could Stem Cells be Used in Drug Discovery?

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

The Cell Cycle

What is Epitranscriptomics?

Cellular Choreographers: the Chromosomal Passenger Complex

Differentiating Cell Types in Forensic Cases

Analyzing Allelic Expression in Cells

Beads on a String: Conflicting Views on Chromatin Architecture

In-Cell Structural Biology- Future Applications

Chirality in Biochemistry

Competing Endogenous RNA in Human Disease

Mutant Splicing Factors as Oncogenes

What is the Pentose Phosphate Pathway?

Cell Staining Techniques

The Steps of Protein Synthesis

The Structure and Function of the 5' UTR

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.

Cryo-ET Reveals Native Membrane Architecture of Synchronous RyR1 Calcium Channels

Using cryo-electron microscopy, researchers at the Max Delbrück Center have revealed how muscle cell calcium channels open synchronously. The findings, published in "Nature Communications," may explain a mechanism behind serious muscle diseases.

25 Sep 2026

3D Stem-Cell miBrains Model Complex Neurovascular Pathology in Human Tissue

Mount Sinai researchers have identified how APOE4, the strongest genetic risk factor for Alzheimer's disease, damages the brain's blood vessels and promotes the buildup of abnormal proteins linked to neurodegenerative disease.

25 Sep 2026

Cancer Cells Hijack Embryonic Repair Mechanisms to Seed Liver Metastases

Most colon cancer deaths are caused by the spread of tumor cells beyond the colon, usually to the liver. In a new study, MIT biologists identified a cellular pathway necessary for colorectal cancer metastasis.

25 Sep 2026

Type I Interferon Pathway Identified as Crucial Innate Viral Defense

Tick populations are expanding across the U.S., driving an increase in tick-borne diseases. Among them is Powassan virus, a rare but increasingly reported infection that can cause severe brain inflammation and lasting neurological complications.

25 Sep 2026

Multi-Receptor Blocking Achieves Superior Antifibrotic Response Over Single-Receptor Inhibition

Three adenosine receptor subtypes that normally send different signals were found to converge on a common pathway that activates cardiac fibroblasts, the scar-forming cells in the heart. Blocking the receptors together produced a much stronger antifibrotic effect than blocking them one at a time.

25 Sep 2026

Cancer-Associated Fibroblasts Construct Physical Barriers Limiting Antitumor T Cell Infiltration

Researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center have identified a previously unknown pathway that prostate tumors leverage to suppress the immune system by reshaping the tumor microenvironment to resist treatment.

25 Sep 2026

Scientists Discover Why High Levels of the Amino Acid Cysteine Are Toxic to Cells

Cysteine is one of the main building blocks that cells use to make proteins. But this amino acid is a double-edged sword–too much cysteine is toxic to the cell.

24 Sep 2026

A Tiny Worm Helps Scientists Unravel a Genetic Clue to Kidney Disease

A microscopic worm that has no kidneys is helping Rutgers scientists understand a genetic change suspected of causing a serious inherited kidney disease.

24 Sep 2026

Study Uncovers Two-Protein Repair Mechanism Preserving Circular ecDNA Stability

Researchers at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) and their colleagues have discovered that a type of rogue DNA found in aggressive cancers has a hidden structural weakness - and that blocking a single repair protein can cause it to fall apart, suggesting a new therapeutic opportunity.

24 Sep 2026

Researchers Simulate Microgravity to Isolate Gravity's Impact on Human Chromatin

The Human Genome Project was launched in 1990, preceded by decades of breakthroughs in genetics. It eventually gave us a sequence of the human genome.

24 Sep 2026

Cambridge Researchers Look Inside Living Antarctic Cells for First Time

Engineers have built the first microscope to see inside living cells in sub-zero conditions, revealing secrets of Antarctic fish survival.

23 Sep 2026

How Feedback Mechanisms Control Neural Chaos for Stable Visual Processing

What we see appears stable, even though neuronal activity is full of irregular fluctuations. A team led by Dr Mehdi Borjkhani from ICTER has shown, using a minimal model of the primary visual cortex, that two natural feedback mechanisms can constrain chaos and reduce variability in neural activity by up to 93 percent.

23 Sep 2026

Strength Training Induces Fat Breakdown in Obese Mice Without Weight Loss

Just seven days of strength training increased visceral fat burning in obese mice, even before any weight loss could be seen on a scale. In an experiment conducted at the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP), researchers observed that a short period of strength training activated mechanisms involved in fat breakdown, reduced fat cell size, and decreased fat around the animals' intestines.

23 Sep 2026

UCLA Team Develops Advanced Immunotherapy to Fight Dangerous Arterial Plaques

A UCLA research team has engineered a new type of immune cell that attacks atherosclerotic plaques — the fatty buildup inside artery walls that drives most heart attacks and strokes.

23 Sep 2026

KAIST Researchers Develop NUDGE to Steer Cell States Without Permanent Alteration

Which genes need to be controlled to guide a stem cell toward a desired cell type, or to modulate an immune cell's inflammatory response? A Korean research team has developed a general-purpose computational framework that identifies the key targets needed to steer a cell toward a desired state with a single temporary intervention, without permanently altering its genes.

23 Sep 2026

Aurora Microplates Wins Best in Showcase at the 2026 LRIG-NYC Spring Expo for CELLAZIP™

Aurora Microplates, a Zeon company, announced that its CELLAZIP™ microplate coating received the Best in Showcase award at the 2026 LRIG-NYC Spring Expo, presented by the Laboratory Robotics Interest Group of New York City.

From Aurora Microplates 23 Sep 2026

Bio-Techne Opens New Customer Experience Center in Düsseldorf to Accelerate Scientific Discovery and Customer Collaboration

Bio-Techne Corporation, a global provider of life science tools, reagents and diagnostic products, today announced the opening of its new Customer Experience Center in Düsseldorf, Germany, a flagship facility designed to bring European customers closer to Bio-Techne's latest innovations and scientific expertise.

From Bio-Techne 22 Sep 2026

Mitochondrial RNA May Explain How Tumors Become Resistant to Immunotherapy

Research highlights mitochondrial RNA's influence on interferon signaling, linking chronic exposure to tumor growth and offering new avenues for immunotherapy.

22 Sep 2026

Blocking Mitochondrial Iron Transport Protects Cells Against Elevated Cysteine Toxicity

Cysteine is one of the main building blocks that cells use to make proteins.

22 Sep 2026

Tumor Suppressor Pathways Remain Intact but Hyperactive During Progressive Tissue Aging

A new review was published in Volume 18 of Aging on August 31, 2026, titled "The guardian paradox: DNA damage response overactivation as an integrative driver of aging – a tumor suppressor–negative regulator framework."

22 Sep 2026

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