In this case study, insect cells were used to express a single-pass transmembrane protein. Transmembrane proteins are influenced chemically by their surroundings.

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.

A single dose of the vaccine offers long-term protection. Contamination is a major issue To produce VLPs, scientists often use insect cells combined with a baculovirus.

When the term "extremophiles" gets thrown around, it's usually in reference to single-celled organisms that thrive in high salt or near-boiling water. But there are a few animals that also manage ...

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 ...

Researchers at Michigan State University studied how insects can help humans detect lung cancer weeks earlier than scans ...

Entomoculture is a subfield of cellular agriculture exploring the use of insect cells as a sustainable food source. Insect cells are favourable as opposed to “traditional” meat cell sources such as ...

Insect Cell Culture: The technique of growing and maintaining insect cells under defined laboratory conditions, facilitating studies of cellular processes and virus–host interactions.

Comparisons between them can answer questions such as how individual cells changed from having single to multiple identities. It’s “an incredibly powerful comparative tool,” Williams said.

A bacterium living in special cells inside an insect has the smallest genome of any known cellular lifeform, a new study finds. With only about 160,000 base pairs of DNA, the genome of Carsonella ...

A temperature-sensitive baculovirus modification, BacFree ts, enables production of virus-like particle vaccines in insect cells with up to 99.97% less baculovirus contamination.