I’d love to read a creepy science fiction story where people dissolve. I asked my friend Anders Omsland if that could happen. He’s a biomedical researcher at Washington State University. He told me a ...

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Fukuoka, Japan—The duplication and division of cells is critical to keeping all multicellular organisms alive. But the opposite process is equally important: cell death. Controlled death of cells, or ...

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Transmission electron microscopic image of an isolate from the first U.S. case of COVID-19, formerly known as 2019-nCoV. The spherical viral particles, colorized blue, contain cross-section through ...

This article and associated images are based on a poster originally authored by Teresa Sorbo, Manuel Paina, Manuel Arcangeletti, Katja Blasi, Sara Martin, Donatella Bardelli, Paola Picardi, Fernanda ...

(A) Gal3-GFP-expressing Jurkat cells were treated with 4 μmol/L of NeoL for 1 h, and immunolabeled for STING (red). Two cells in the same field under NeoL treatment were imaged by confocal microscopy.