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.

Protein Production: Initiation, Elongation and Termination

Use of Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) in Forensics

What are Mesenchymal Stem Cells?

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.

Application of Magnetic Nanoparticles in the Detection of Nucleic Acid

‘Dark matter’ DNA and Cancer

Using Aptamers to Detect Cancer

B Cell Development

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

Hypoxia in Breast Cancer

What are Neutrophils?

How Does a Coulter Counter Work?

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What are Vesicants?

Advancements in Buccal Cell Collection

Creating Biomaterials that can Heal bone

What are Inflammatory Cell Death Regulators?

What is Cancer Biotherapeutics?

What is Neurobiology?

What Is Synthetic Embryology?

What is Cell-Cell Adhesion?

Protocell Uses in Biology

Cell Staining Techniques

Single-Molecule Imaging Techniques: Shedding Light on Molecular Dynamics

Uses of Human Pluripotent Stem Cells

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

Utilizing Cell Lines to Derive Chemosensitivity

What is Biosafety and Why is it Important?

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

The Biology of Behavior

What Role does Mitochondria Play in Eyesight?

Competing Endogenous RNA in Human Disease

What is the Pentose Phosphate Pathway?

In-Cell Structural Biology- Future Applications

Cell Structure and Antibiotic Resistance

Molecular Cell Biology of Diabetes

Proving Monoclonality with PCR

What are G-Protein-Coupled Receptors?

What are the differences between B and T Cells?

Endothelial Cell Biology

Keratinocyte Stem Cells: An Overview

How to Generate Stable Cell Lines

Mitochondrial and Nuclear Genome Interactions

The Steps of Protein Synthesis

Cell Biology and Toxicology

Diversity in Cellular Cardiac Tissue

GPCR Signaling Pathways

Single-Cell Sequencing for the Treatment of Alzheimer's

Cellular Choreographers: the Chromosomal Passenger Complex

What are Zwitterions?

What are the differences between Stem Cells and Somatic Cells?

Why does Cell Polarity Matter?

Effects of Cell Death on Neurodegeneration

Cell Line Authentication using DNA Barcoding

Mutant Splicing Factors as Oncogenes

Insight into Cell Cultures and Their Challenges

Pluripotent Stem Cells

A Guide to Understanding Multicellularity

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

The Structure and Function of the 5' UTR

What are Biofilms?

Human vs. Animal Cells for Disease Models

What is Stem Cell Banking?

Applications of Osteoclasts in Bone Repair

Gut Microbes in Determining Food Allergies in Children

Cell Identification: The Basic Principles

What are Stress Granules?

What is Bioprinting?

What is Competing Endogenous RNA?

Redefining Materials Using Synthetic Biology

Chirality in Biochemistry

Analyzing Allelic Expression in Cells

Cellular Engineering: Cutting-Edge Cell Manipulation Technologies

What are CAR T cells?

What is Epidemiology?

The Cell Cycle

How are Artificial Cells Produced?

Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell Technology

Applications of 3D printing in Drug Delivery

What is Epitranscriptomics?

Utilizing Cell Lines to Derive Chemosensitivity

Stem Cell Controversy

What is Cell Culture Forensics?

Beads on a String: Conflicting Views on Chromatin Architecture

Differentiating Cell Types in Forensic Cases

Role of Macrophages in Cancer

The Future of Bioengineered Products

What are Regulatory T Cells?

lncRNAs in Human Disease

What is Macrophage Polarization?

Ghost Cytometry - Revolutionizing Cell Sorting

How could Stem Cells be Used in Drug Discovery?

What are RNA Sensors?

RNA-based Methods for Body Fluid and Cell Type Identification

Insight into Tissue Repair and Regeneration

What are the Differences between Eukaryotes and Prokaryotes?

Transposons and Their Role in Causing Diseases

Artificial Tissue Implants: Understanding Cell Adhesion to Polymeric Substances

The Revolution of Synthetic Biology

Sustainability within Synthetic Biology

What are Stem Cells?

lncRNAs in Human Disease

In-Cell Structural Biology- Future Applications

Treating Disease Using Your Own Stem Cells

Applications of Chemoattractants

A History of Developmental Biology

Insight into the Function of the Peroxisome

What Is Cryoprecipitate?

Insulin Signaling Pathway

T Cell Development

What is Synthetic Biology?

Cell Biology of Neurogenesis

What is non-coding RNA (ncRNA)?

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

How to Generate Stable Cell Lines

Stem Cell Properties

Clinical Applications of Plasmapheresis

Diversity in Cellular Cardiac Tissue

RNA Polymerases Across the Kingdoms of Life

Mysteries Behind Multiciliated Cells

What is a Protocell?

How could mRNA be Used to Fight Diseases?

Enhancing the Function of Mitochondria Using Deep Red Light

Cellular Aging

The Removal of Senescent Cells to Improve Organ Function

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.

Genomic Adaptation Reveals How Candida auris Resists Potent Antifungal Drug Treatments

New research has revealed an unexpected new mechanism through which the killer fungus Candida auris is resisting antifungal drug treatment.

15 Oct 2026

Study Uncovers Sex Specific Coordinated Stem Cell Dynamics in Skin Repair

By filming skin stem cells in living mice over five months, researchers at the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), in collaboration with the University of Cambridge, have discovered that in females these cells renew the skin in a more coordinated way than in males.

15 Oct 2026

Overcoming Bioprinting Challenges for Mature Adipocytes in 3D Tissue Models

Adipose tissue is a metabolically active organ involved in energy storage, endocrine signaling, and whole-body metabolic regulation.

15 Oct 2026

Rhizosphere Tug-of-War for Iron Drives Plant-Microbe Evolutionary Co-Adaptation

Energy production in our cells, oxygen traveling in our blood, and immune cells fighting infection all depend on iron, an essential mineral that enters the food chain when plants absorb it from soil. But iron is often scarce-likely increasingly so as global weather and temperatures continue to change-and we aren't the only ones that need it.

15 Oct 2026

Mount Sinai Launches Bioengineered Brain and Heart Models Into Space

Mount Sinai researchers are sending bioengineered human brain and cardiovascular tissue models into space for the first time today, as part of the SpaceX CRS-35 mission, to study brain activity, cardiovascular function, and accelerated aging in orbit.

15 Oct 2026

Comprehensive Analysis of Emerging Strategies for Targeting Cyclin-Dependent Kinases in Cancer

More than 30 years after the direct connection was established between the molecular machinery controlling cell division and cancer, a new paper traces the evolution of cyclin-dependent kinase research and outlines the next generation of CDK-targeted therapies.

15 Oct 2026

Cryo-EM Snapshots Capture Multi-Stage Structural Transitions During DNA Recombination

Bacteriophages, or viruses that infect bacteria, have a fiendishly simple purpose in life: attach to a bacterial cell, inject their DNA, and then use the host's genetic machinery to reproduce. In doing so, they may have evolved some of the most efficient gene editing tools ever seen in nature.

15 Oct 2026

Scientists Discover Cell Division Mechanism Driving Acute Myeloid Leukemia

Experts from the University of Nottingham have discovered how a common genetic mutation disrupts the positioning of a key protein during cell division, revealing a new mechanism behind acute myeloid leukemia and a potential avenue for future treatment.

15 Oct 2026

Single-Nucleosome Imaging Tracks Chromatin Movement in Asynchronous Human Cells

Human genomic DNA is wrapped around core histone proteins to form nucleosomes, the fundamental units of chromatin.

15 Oct 2026

Biochemists Map the Cellular Machinery Behind Nuclear Pore Construction

The cells of higher organisms such as mammals, flies and fungi enclose their genetic material in a nucleus.

14 Oct 2026

Lipid Nanoparticles Reprogram NK Cells Internally to Eliminate Cancerous T Cells

MIT engineers have developed a new way to program natural killer (NK) immune cells to target cancerous T cells or T cells that have become autoreactive, leading to diseases such as lymphoma and autoimmune hepatitis.

14 Oct 2026

New AI Model Decodes the Language of Immune Cell Movement

Researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and collaborating institutions in Texas developed an artificial intelligence (AI) model that helps explain how immune cells find their way to specific locations in the body and why they avoid others.

14 Oct 2026

Massive Tumor Cell Analysis Reveals Secret Mechanism Behind Pancreatic Cancer Resistance

A new analysis of nearly half a million cells from dozens of pancreatic tumors, led by researchers at UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center and New York University (NYU), reveals how pancreatic cancer cells continuously reshape their genetic makeup over time, enabling them to evade treatment.

14 Oct 2026

Improving CRISPR-Based Diagnostics for Sensitive Detection of Infectious RNA Viruses

Scientists have long used a powerful gene-editing tool called CRISPR to make precise changes to DNA.

14 Oct 2026

Study Identifies Single Hydrophobic Hotspot Driving Tau Protein Misfolding Propagation

Diseases such as Alzheimer's and frontotemporal dementia are considered neurodegenerative tauopathies, in which tau proteins in the brain misfold and lead to cognitive decline. Until now, it has been unclear how misfolded tau recruits other seemingly healthy tau and causes it to misfold and clump.

13 Oct 2026

Transcriptional Repression Mechanism Prevents Protective Immune Pathways From Triggering Autoimmunity

A preclinical study by researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center has discovered how a protein called ZBTB44 helps prevent excessive immune activity that can cause inflammation in the colon, the main section of the large intestine. The findings, published in Nature Immunology, may help explain how immune responses go awry in a range of chronic inflammatory and autoimmune diseases

13 Oct 2026

Three-Dimensional Genome Architecture Actively Dictates Phenotypic Novelties in Octopuses

Octopuses, squid and cuttlefish, collectively known as coleoid cephalopods, have evolved exceptionally large and elaborately structured nervous systems capable of complex behaviors such as problem-solving and rapid camouflage.

10 Oct 2026

Researchers Capture Real-Time Molecular Movie of Penicillin Enzymatic Ring Closure

Researchers from the University of Oxford and international collaborators have revealed previously unseen rapid chemical stages in the formation of β-lactam antibiotics like penicillin, offering insights that can support future antibiotic development.

10 Oct 2026

Study Creates Global Single-Cell Map of Human Immune System Aging

While birthday candles measure the number of years someone has lived, they don't always tell the full story about someone's health.

10 Oct 2026

Microbe Retains Self-Replication Machinery While Discarding Almost All Metabolic Pathways

Scientists have discovered a previously unknown microorganism, which has the smallest genome ever found, that is possibly able to replicate and express its own genetic information.

10 Oct 2026

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