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.

Competing Endogenous RNA in Human Disease

In-Cell Structural Biology- Future Applications

Effects of Cell Death on Neurodegeneration

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 are Stress Granules?

What are the differences between Stem Cells and Somatic Cells?

Applications of Chemoattractants

What is Biosafety and Why is it Important?

Utilizing Cell Lines to Derive Chemosensitivity

Diversity in Cellular Cardiac Tissue

Transposons and Their Role in Causing Diseases

Utilizing Cell Lines to Derive Chemosensitivity

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Mutant Splicing Factors as Oncogenes

Single-Molecule Imaging Techniques: Shedding Light on Molecular Dynamics

In-Cell Structural Biology- Future Applications

What are Stem Cells?

T Cell Development

Pluripotent Stem Cells

A Guide to Understanding Multicellularity

How are Artificial Cells Produced?

Cell Biology of Neurogenesis

RNA-based Methods for Body Fluid and Cell Type Identification

What are Mesenchymal Stem Cells?

Clinical Applications of Plasmapheresis

Advancements in Buccal Cell Collection

Using Aptamers to Detect Cancer

Why does Cell Polarity Matter?

What is Macrophage Polarization?

GPCR Signaling Pathways

Cell Biology and Toxicology

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

The Cell Cycle

What is Cell-Cell Adhesion?

What are Biofilms?

Beads on a String: Conflicting Views on Chromatin Architecture

Cell Staining Techniques

What is the Pentose Phosphate Pathway?

The Biology of Behavior

What is Neurobiology?

What are CAR T cells?

What are Vesicants?

‘Dark matter’ DNA and Cancer

What is Stem Cell Banking?

What Is Synthetic Embryology?

Ghost Cytometry - Revolutionizing Cell Sorting

How to Generate Stable Cell Lines

What is Cell Culture Forensics?

What is Synthetic Biology?

What is Epidemiology?

Redefining Materials Using Synthetic Biology

Cellular Aging

Human vs. Animal Cells for Disease Models

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

What are Neutrophils?

What are Inflammatory Cell Death Regulators?

Insight into Cell Cultures and Their Challenges

Diversity in Cellular Cardiac Tissue

Endothelial Cell Biology

Insight into the Function of the Peroxisome

The Structure and Function of the 5' UTR

Sustainability within Synthetic Biology

Artificial Tissue Implants: Understanding Cell Adhesion to Polymeric Substances

Molecular Cell Biology of Diabetes

Treating Disease Using Your Own Stem Cells

Analyzing Allelic Expression in Cells

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

The Steps of Protein Synthesis

lncRNAs in Human Disease

Uses of Human Pluripotent Stem Cells

Mitochondrial and Nuclear Genome Interactions

What are Regulatory T Cells?

What are the differences between B and T Cells?

B Cell Development

Cellular Engineering: Cutting-Edge Cell Manipulation Technologies

Stem Cell Properties

The Revolution of Synthetic Biology

What is Cancer Biotherapeutics?

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

Differentiating Cell Types in Forensic Cases

A History of Developmental Biology

RNA Polymerases Across the Kingdoms of Life

How could Stem Cells be Used in Drug Discovery?

How to Generate Stable Cell Lines

How could mRNA be Used to Fight Diseases?

Enhancing the Function of Mitochondria Using Deep Red Light

lncRNAs in Human Disease

What Role does Mitochondria Play in Eyesight?

What are RNA Sensors?

Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell Technology

Use of Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) in Forensics

The Removal of Senescent Cells to Improve Organ Function

Stem Cell Controversy

What are the Differences between Eukaryotes and Prokaryotes?

Insight into Tissue Repair and Regeneration

Insulin Signaling Pathway

Mysteries Behind Multiciliated Cells

What is Epitranscriptomics?

Keratinocyte Stem Cells: An Overview

What is non-coding RNA (ncRNA)?

How Does a Coulter Counter Work?

Applications of Osteoclasts in Bone Repair

Cell Identification: The Basic Principles

What is Competing Endogenous RNA?

Protocell Uses in Biology

Cell Structure and Antibiotic Resistance

Proving Monoclonality with PCR

Cellular Choreographers: the Chromosomal Passenger Complex

The Future of Bioengineered Products

Single-Cell Sequencing for the Treatment of Alzheimer's

Applications of 3D printing in Drug Delivery

What Is Cryoprecipitate?

Hypoxia in Breast Cancer

What are G-Protein-Coupled Receptors?

Application of Magnetic Nanoparticles in the Detection of Nucleic Acid

Cell Line Authentication using DNA Barcoding

What are Zwitterions?

Gut Microbes in Determining Food Allergies in Children

What is a Protocell?

What is Bioprinting?

Creating Biomaterials that can Heal bone

Chirality in Biochemistry

Role of Macrophages in Cancer

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

Protein Production: Initiation, Elongation and Termination

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.

Microbial Molecule Controls Cancer Progression and Boosts Chemotherapy

An international team of scientists led by researchers from the MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences (LMS), Imperial College London, and the University of Cologne discovered that microbes associated with tumors produce a molecule that can control cancer progression and improve chemotherapy efficacy.

15 Sep 2025

Researchers Decipher the Rules Behind Cellular Quality Control In Humans

A research team at the University of Cologne and the Max Delbrück Center in Berlin has deciphered in detail the rules behind an important mechanism of cellular quality control in humans.

13 Sep 2025

Study Identifies Dcir as a Brake on Immune Responses to Aspergillus Infection

People are exposed to millions of fungal spores every day, even potentially harmful ones like those from Aspergillus fumigatus.

13 Sep 2025

Engineered Base Editor Corrects ACTA2 Mutation in Rare Childhood Disease

Multisystemic smooth muscle dysfunction syndrome (MSMDS) is a rare condition associated with stroke, aortic dissection (tearing) and death in childhood.

13 Sep 2025

Pre-Wired T Cells Offer a New Path for Cancer Vaccines

A team of immunologists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst has turned what we know about T-cells, one of the most important parts of the body's immune system, on its head, opening the door to next-generation cancer vaccines.

13 Sep 2025

Adaptive Microfluidic Channel Enhances Impedance Flow Cytometry Sensitivity

Many advances in medicine and drug development were possible owing to flow cytometry, a single-cell analysis technique that analyzes cells using the emitted fluorescence of their chemical tags while passing through a laser beam.

13 Sep 2025

Metastatic Lung Cancer Cells Cozy Up to Neurons and Form Synapses

Small cell lung cancer cells that metastasize to the brain cozy up to neurons and form working electrical connections, called synapses, according to an upcoming study led by Stanford Medicine researchers.

11 Sep 2025

PhoBITs Enable Unprecedented Control of Cellular Pathways with Blue Light

Imagine being able to flip a light switch to control disease pathways inside a living cell. A team of visionary researchers at the Texas A&M University Health Science Center (Texas A&M Health) is making this dream a reality with their groundbreaking genetic tools known as photo-inducible binary interaction tools, or PhoBITs.

10 Sep 2025

Researchers Discover Giant DNA Elements Hidden in the Human Mouth

Researchers including those at the University of Tokyo have made a surprising discovery hiding in people's mouths: Inocles, giant DNA elements that had previously escaped detection.

10 Sep 2025

New Method Discovers Genetic Switches More Quickly

Researchers led by Dubravka Vučićević at the Max Delbrück Center have developed a new method for discovering how DNA controls genes. Published in “Cell Genomics,” their technique can reveal the genetic “switches” that regulate important genes more quickly than existing methods.

10 Sep 2025

Unraveling How Fly Embryos Solve the Fundamental Problem of "Tissue Tectonic Collision"

Combining classic comparative approaches, including collecting species from the wild, and cutting-edge light-induced gene manipulation technology, researchers from Japan and Germany have discovered how developing fly embryos solve the fundamental problem of "tissue tectonic collision" when the rapidly expanding head and torso tissues crash into each other.

10 Sep 2025

Tracing Origins of Wnt Signaling Through the Lipocone Superfamily

Researchers have described a large set of previously unrecognized enzymatic domains – named the Lipocone superfamily – and outlined their evolutionary pathway from bacterial defense molecules to key players in human development.

10 Sep 2025

spVelo: A New Method for Integrating Spatial and Temporal Data in RNA Velocity Analysis

Essentially all cells in an organism's body have the same genetic blueprint, or genome, but the set of genes that are actively expressed at any given time in a cell determines what type of cell it will be and its function.

8 Sep 2025

New Research Highlights a More Efficient CAR T Treatment

This review article focuses on the transformative potential of in vivo CAR T cell treatment in overcoming the constraints of standard CAR T cell production.

8 Sep 2025

Blocking SUMO2 Protein may be a Winning Strategy Against Synovial Sarcoma

In the sport of sumo, a bout most commonly ends when one competitor is pushed or thrown outside of a ring of straw bales partially buried in clay.

8 Sep 2025

New Computational Tool Tracks How Genetic Variants Affect mRNA Stability

A pizza shop with 30 delivery people ought to be able to deliver a lot of pizzas - if their cars don't break down on the way.

8 Sep 2025

BioDlink Fast-Tracks Global Growth with Bevacizumab Launch in Colombia and Pakistan

BioDlink announced that its self-developed bevacizumab injection biosimilar has received marketing approval from Colombia’s National Institute for Surveillance of Medicines and Foods (INVIMA) and Pakistan’s Drug Regulatory Authority of Pakistan (DRAP).

8 Sep 2025

Axxam and B'SYS Partner to Expand Access to Validated Ion Channel Cell Lines for High-Throughput Electrophysiology

Axxam S.p.A., a premier provider of integrated early drug discovery services, and B'SYS GmbH, a specialist in ion channel biology, are pleased to announce a strategic collaboration focused on enabling access to validated ion channel cell lines for hit and lead identification through high-throughput electrophysiological screening.

From Axxam S.p.A 8 Sep 2025

Earth BioGenome Project Aims to Build a Digital Library of All Life

From the mighty blue whale to the humble baker’s yeast, scientists have barely begun to understand the vast genetic diversity among lifeforms.

5 Sep 2025

Scientists Identify Human Proteins Essential for SARS-CoV-2 Infection and Replication

Despite vaccines and treatments, SARS-CoV-2-the virus that causes COVID-19-continues to pose a global health threat, driven by new variants and its ability to hijack human cells in ways that still aren't fully understood.

5 Sep 2025

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