Gene therapy shows great promise in being an effective therapeutic strategy for human disease. In the past decade, excitement about gene therapy applications has stimulated numerous clinical trials ...

Cells continuously move materials in and out through their cell walls. Facilitated transport is one way of moving those materials without expending cellular energy. In facilitated transport, materials ...

Quantum dots diffuse within living cells in a nearly two-dimensional fashion. This result, which was obtained using a new 3D microscopy technique that can track single particles, sheds fresh light on ...