A pan-Canadian team has developed a new way to quickly find personalized treatments for young cancer patients, by growing ...

Life takes shape with the motion of a single cell. In response to signals from certain proteins and enzymes, a cell can start to move and shake, leading to contractions that cause it to squeeze, pinch ...

Because the egg cell is only 100 micrometers, or one-tenth of a millimeter, wide, we monitor this fine surgical extraction with a microscope ... to continue growing under these conditions ...

The researchers observed that light activated the enzyme, causing predictable cell movements. For example, specific light ...

This is a leaf surface under a scanning electron microscope ... And human sperm cells on the surface of an egg. But what about a transmission electron microscope? The difference with a ...

In experiments, the researchers then placed each enzyme-infused egg cell under a microscope and shone light onto the cell in different patterns and from different points along the cell's periphery.