Researchers at the University of Michigan have identified how mitochondrial dysfunction impairs insulin-producing pancreatic ...

A new study unravels the relationship between mitofusins (mitochondrial proteins) and autophagy. Using gene editing with CRISPR-Cas9, the team has been able to study these proteins without altering ...

Endosomal recycling is a branch of intracellular membrane trafficking that retrieves endocytosed cargo proteins from early and late endosomes to prevent their degradatio ...

Autophagy is the process by which cells digest and renew their internal structures, recycling damaged or malfunctioning ...

Headed by Drs. Antonio Zorzano and Saska Ivanova, a study published in the journal Autophagy unravels the relationship between mitofusins (mitochondrial proteins) and autophagy. Using gene editing ...

Beans are a key food at the dietary level, boasting high nutritional value and constituting the most directly consumed legume ...

Researchers developed a technique to gain a deeper understanding of ribosome function and their cooperative behaviors.

The liver performs hundreds of vital functions, including converting nutrients from food into energy, filtering toxins from the blood, and producing bile, a key substance in digestion and waste ...

Mitochondria organelles came from primordial bacterial endosymbionts and still preserve distinct genes for important functions like making ATP. To speed the emerging therapeutic research into the ...

CAS Key Laboratory for Biomedical Effects of Nanomaterials and Nanosafety, National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, Beijing 100190, China College of Materials Science and Optoelectronic ...

After an MIT seminar about the ER's lesser-known functions, Acevedo-Sánchez developed ... "Manipulating the organelle that establishes contact with other organelles could be a great way for ...