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.

lncRNAs in Human Disease

What are Mesenchymal Stem Cells?

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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.

Cell Identification: The Basic Principles

Effects of Cell Death on Neurodegeneration

Endothelial Cell Biology

Human vs. Animal Cells for Disease Models

Keratinocyte Stem Cells: An Overview

Artificial Tissue Implants: Understanding Cell Adhesion to Polymeric Substances

Gut Microbes in Determining Food Allergies in Children

Insight into Tissue Repair and Regeneration

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What is Epidemiology?

Using Aptamers to Detect Cancer

Mysteries Behind Multiciliated Cells

Insulin Signaling Pathway

How to Generate Stable Cell Lines

T Cell Development

Cell Structure and Antibiotic Resistance

Competing Endogenous RNA in Human Disease

What are the differences between Stem Cells and Somatic Cells?

Transposons and Their Role in Causing Diseases

RNA Polymerases Across the Kingdoms of Life

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

Stem Cell Properties

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

What is Cancer Biotherapeutics?

What are CAR T cells?

Redefining Materials Using Synthetic Biology

What are Stem Cells?

Beads on a String: Conflicting Views on Chromatin Architecture

What are Zwitterions?

Cell Line Authentication using DNA Barcoding

What is Bioprinting?

What is Cell-Cell Adhesion?

Applications of 3D printing in Drug Delivery

What is non-coding RNA (ncRNA)?

What Role does Mitochondria Play in Eyesight?

Clinical Applications of Plasmapheresis

What is the Pentose Phosphate Pathway?

Mutant Splicing Factors as Oncogenes

What is a Protocell?

Protein Production: Initiation, Elongation and Termination

What is Epitranscriptomics?

Diversity in Cellular Cardiac Tissue

How are Artificial Cells Produced?

Application of Magnetic Nanoparticles in the Detection of Nucleic Acid

Insight into Cell Cultures and Their Challenges

What are Stress Granules?

What Is Cryoprecipitate?

What are the differences between B and T Cells?

What is Stem Cell Banking?

The Biology of Behavior

Why does Cell Polarity Matter?

The Removal of Senescent Cells to Improve Organ Function

Creating Biomaterials that can Heal bone

Applications of Chemoattractants

Single-Cell Sequencing for the Treatment of Alzheimer's

Protocell Uses in Biology

What is Neurobiology?

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

Treating Disease Using Your Own Stem Cells

Differentiating Cell Types in Forensic Cases

A History of Developmental Biology

Analyzing Allelic Expression in Cells

Molecular Cell Biology of Diabetes

Stem Cell Controversy

‘Dark matter’ DNA and Cancer

The Revolution of Synthetic Biology

Ghost Cytometry - Revolutionizing Cell Sorting

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

Mitochondrial and Nuclear Genome Interactions

Cellular Engineering: Cutting-Edge Cell Manipulation Technologies

What is Biosafety and Why is it Important?

Cell Biology of Neurogenesis

Utilizing Cell Lines to Derive Chemosensitivity

Pluripotent Stem Cells

Chirality in Biochemistry

Cellular Choreographers: the Chromosomal Passenger Complex

Cellular Aging

What are Biofilms?

lncRNAs in Human Disease

Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell Technology

What are Inflammatory Cell Death Regulators?

What are RNA Sensors?

How Does a Coulter Counter Work?

RNA-based Methods for Body Fluid and Cell Type Identification

Hypoxia in Breast Cancer

The Future of Bioengineered Products

What is Cell Culture Forensics?

Single-Molecule Imaging Techniques: Shedding Light on Molecular Dynamics

What are Regulatory T Cells?

The Structure and Function of the 5' UTR

What Is Synthetic Embryology?

The Steps of Protein Synthesis

In-Cell Structural Biology- Future Applications

What is Macrophage Polarization?

A Guide to Understanding Multicellularity

What is Synthetic Biology?

How could mRNA be Used to Fight Diseases?

Role of Macrophages in Cancer

Diversity in Cellular Cardiac Tissue

How to Generate Stable Cell Lines

B Cell Development

GPCR Signaling Pathways

Sustainability within Synthetic Biology

Applications of Osteoclasts in Bone Repair

What are G-Protein-Coupled Receptors?

Utilizing Cell Lines to Derive Chemosensitivity

What are Vesicants?

In-Cell Structural Biology- Future Applications

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

Use of Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) in Forensics

Advancements in Buccal Cell Collection

Enhancing the Function of Mitochondria Using Deep Red Light

Insight into the Function of the Peroxisome

What is Competing Endogenous RNA?

Cell Biology and Toxicology

Proving Monoclonality with PCR

What are Neutrophils?

Cell Staining Techniques

The Cell Cycle

What are the Differences between Eukaryotes and Prokaryotes?

Uses of Human Pluripotent Stem Cells

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.

Super-Resolution DNA Imaging Platform Links Chromatin Loosening to Tumor Progression

Scientists have engineered fluorescent molecules enabling the visualization of DNA organization within living cells with unparalleled resolution, and in fixed cells, nearly the width of the double helix itself.

31 Aug 2026

Moving Beyond DNA Sequencing Unlocks New Paths Managing Human Health

Scientists from Gladstone Institutes, UC San Francisco, and Stanford University, in collaboration with Biohub, have unveiled a massive, high-resolution functional map of human immune cells that promises to transform our understanding of how genetics control health and disease.

31 Aug 2026

Tiny Cell Structures Called Peroxisomes Protect Vital Human Insulin Supply

Researchers at LSU's Pennington Biomedical Research Center have identified a previously underappreciated role for tiny structures inside cells called peroxisomes in protecting insulin and maintaining the health and maturity of insulin-producing pancreatic beta cells.

31 Aug 2026

Genetically Engineered Marine Bacteria Accelerate Global Carbon Dioxide Removal Efforts

Rock weathering, the breakdown and dissolving of rocks and minerals caused by their exposure to water, air, and biological life, is a major regulator of Earth's atmospheric CO2 levels and climate.

31 Aug 2026

Malva Platform Locates Pathogens and Tumor Driving Cells in Seconds

Imagine doctors had the potential to understand exactly what cells caused a patient's cancer, or whether pathogens contributed to the disease.

31 Aug 2026

New Human Blood Test Accurately Predicts Fatal ALS Neurological Progression

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a severe neurological disease that destroys nerve cells responsible for muscle movement. The disease typically begins with limb or bulbar weakness and progresses to respiratory failure.

31 Aug 2026

Single Line T Cell Immunity Fails Maintaining Permanent Zika Protections

CA-Zika virus has been spreading for decades, but it first grabbed worldwide headlines in 2016. That February, with an outbreak sweeping the Americas, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the surge in Zika-linked birth defects a "public health emergency of international concern"-a designation which lasted until that November.

31 Aug 2026

Researchers Track Harmful Post COVID Autoantibodies to Specific B Cells

When the immune system encounters a virus, it produces antibodies designed to recognize and eliminate the invader.

31 Aug 2026

Bulky Molecular CRISPR Systems Barely Fit Inside Single Viral Vectors

The ability to precisely adjust the expression of genes inside the human body - ramping up protective ones and tamping down harmful ones - holds enormous potential for treating and preventing disease.

31 Aug 2026

Essential SNX5 Protein Alerts Human Immune Cells to Tuberculosis Infections

Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have identified a protein that helps the immune system respond to tuberculosis (TB), one of the world's leading infectious diseases.

31 Aug 2026

Researchers Struggle Tracking Human Dementia Progress Using Traditional Laboratory Mice

Brain diseases, including dementia, have long been studied using experimental animals such as mice. However, differences between the human and animal genomes have raised concerns that some disease mechanisms may not be fully explained by conventional animal models.

31 Aug 2026

Scientists Find Cancer Gene Forcing Zombie Cells to Cause Aging

In a tale of identities as divergent as "The Prince and the Pauper," a well-known cancer-causing gene also influences cells in a zombie-like state meant to prevent cancer.

31 Aug 2026

Researchers Identify Early Molecular Warning Signs of Inflammatory Bowel Disease

Researchers have uncovered early molecular warning signs of inflammatory bowel disease, revealing the condition can begin before symptoms appear and continue silently even when patients appear well.

From Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research (WEHI) 29 Aug 2026

Primate-Specific DNA Change Reveals a New Link to Dementia-Related Neurodegeneration

29 Aug 2026

Machine Learning Tool Uncovers Epigenome Patterns Without Predefined Labels

In a study recently published in Nature Communications, researchers from Berlin, Potsdam, and Jena present a new method for analyzing the epigenome, the genome's control system that determines which genes are switched on and off.

28 Aug 2026

OIST Scientists Uncover Fleeting Sugar Pairs Regulating Cell Division

Acting as an armor, a scaffold, and a communication platform in one, our cells' plasma membrane lies at the heart of many crucial cellular processes.

28 Aug 2026

Cellular Glue Helps Engulf Dying Cells

A protein which sticks cells and tissues together has been found to have a surprising second job: helping cells which are packed into a continuous sealed layer, also known as epithelial cells, engulf nearby dead cells.

28 Aug 2026

Genetic Toolkit Helps Researchers Map Single Neurons in Fruit Flies

Our brains constantly integrate information about both our internal state and our surroundings to determine how we behave.

28 Aug 2026

Newly Found Fibroblasts Help Lung Tumors Evade Immune System

Researchers at Columbia University have discovered a new type of cell that protects lung cancers from attacks by the immune system.

28 Aug 2026

Antarctic Soil Microbes Are Frequently Picking Up Genes for Turning Air Into Energy

Antarctica is one of the driest, coldest places on Earth and long ago its soil microbes were largely dismissed as static or inactive, asleep in the harsh conditions – but new research has revealed that is decidedly not the case.

28 Aug 2026

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