The Duke Light Microscopy Core Facility has allowed us to look at everything from liver cells to scallop eyes up close, showing how alien they can appear up close. Here are a few more of our ...

Insect cells necessitate the use of an intermediate – baculovirus –to enable protein expression. Baculoviruses are a varied group of DNA viruses able to infect more than 600 types of insect cells.

Scientists at the Carnegie Institution's Department of Embryology have found that adult fruitflies have the same stem cells controlling cell regulation in their gut as humans do.

A decade ago, the existence of Asgard archaea was unknown. However, in 2015, researchers analyzing deep-sea sediments uncovered gene fragments that suggested the presence of a new, previously ...

Though insect cells grow like crazy, Rubio found, it’s hard to get them to stop and take on the specialized characteristics of muscle cells that would be classified as what we might call “meat.” ...

Therefore, the team successfully produced a single recombinant baculovirus that could express, all by itself, ... The generation of SARS-CoV-2 virus-like particles in insect cells.

The wiring of one insect’s brain no longer contains much uncharted territory. All of the nerve cells — and virtually every connection between them — in a larval fruit fly brain have now been ...

Van Andel Institute scientists have developed an improved technique to comprehensively profile DNA methylation in single ...

It sounds crazy, but insect cells grown in a lab could be made into futuristic foods like faux lobster--and they would leave very little environmental footprint in the process.