Velia Fowler (standing), chair of the Department of Biological Sciences and pioneering researcher in the architecture of cells, examines F-actin and other proteins in the structure of red blood cells ...

Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science, the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and ...

Some of the body's cells stay put for life, while others are free to roam. To move, these migratory cells rely on filopodia—sensitive, finger-like protrusions that reach out from the cell membrane ...

A nerve cell resembles a vast tree with branches that communicate with thousands of other cells. To function, it depends on a ...