New research reveals that brain cells use a muscle-like signaling mechanism to relay information over long distances.

Following on from our infiltration of the prison and our first meeting with the shadowy figure who controls it, Chapter 4: ...

This influx of calcium at the contact site attracts and activates a kinase called CaMKII, a protein known to be important in ...

Bone-marrow-derived multipotent progenitor stromal cells — or mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) — are the common predecessors of cells of the mesenchymal lineage, such as bone, cartilage and fat ...

Cell signalling is the mechanism by which stimuli are transmitted via a signalling cascade to effector molecules that orchestrate the appropriate response. Types of cell signalling pathways ...

What place do stories of romance and marriage have in the pages of a newspaper? Join this conversation with the Vows writer Rosalie R. Radomsky by Feb. 14 to find out. By The Learning Network A ...

After polarization, monocytes migrate toward interendothelial junctions and then transmigrate into the underlying tissues. The members of the JAM family expressed by endothelial cells (JAM-A, JAM-B, ...

While HIV-1 infection of target cells with cell-free viral particles has been largely documented, intercellular transmission through direct cell-to-cell contact may be a predominant mode of ...