A new study has revealed the clearest-ever picture of the surface chemistry of worm species that provides groundbreaking insights into how animals interact with their environment and each other. These ...

Researchers at the Center for Life Sciences at the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI have for the first time identified structural changes in the botulinum neurotoxin, botox for short, that are believed to ...

This important study focused on characterizing clonally derived MSC populations from the synovium of normal and osteoarthritis (OA) patients, demonstrating their potential to regenerate cartilage in ...

When blood cancer cells break through the bone and multiply, tumor cells become dangerously diverse and the immune response ...

A team from UNIGE, the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Physiology in Dortmund, and Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf ...

Or these blobs might be summoned when a cell starts synthesizing the constituent RNA. That seems to be what happens, for example, when our own cells make a noncoding RNA called NEAT1, the scaffold ...

For example, cells that fire for Harry Potter might also fire for his wizarding school pals Ron Weasley or Hermione Granger. Maybe they’d even fire for Gandalf, the wizard from The Lord of the Rings. ...

A recent study from Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India has revealed new details about how our cells clean up and recycle waste. This process, known as autophagy, is like a self ...

Take the electrolyte potassium, for example. It is the most abundant positively charged ion inside cells, but its concentration is 30-fold lower in the extracellular environment. "Suddenly an ...