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.

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 ...

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.

Insect colonies, although composed of many critters, function in a manner similar to individual organisms, according to a new study. The results suggest that these colonies act like ...

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 ...

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

"In most mammalian muscle cell culture systems, the cells have to be fixed in a single layer to a growth surface -- which is complex to scale up for mass food production.

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 ...