The cells in human bodies are subject to both chemical and mechanical forces. But until recently, scientists have not ...

Researchers have found that some cells form new multicellular structures with functions that defy their original biological ...

Knocking out a single gene reprograms part of the large intestine to function like the nutrient-absorbing small intestine. In ...

A team led by Professor Kazuhiro Maeshima of the National Institute of Genetics (ROIS) and SOKENDAI in Japan has developed a ...

A growing body of work suggests that cell metabolism — the chemical reactions that provide energy and building materials — ...

For human health, prematurely aging cells are a big problem. When a cell ages and stops growing, its function changes, which ...

Scientists have long tried to understand the human brain by comparing it to other primates. Researchers are still trying to ...

Sun-Min Yu, UMass Amherst and Steve Granick, UMass Amherst (THE CONVERSATION) Your cells constantly generate and conduct electricity that runs through your body to perform various functions ... cells ...

A University of Iowa-led study has revealed the unexpected structure adopted by the DNA repair protein RAD52 as it binds and protects replicating DNA in dividing cells. This new structural and ...

As warehouses go, nuclei are more like libraries than bank vaults. Too many cellular components need access to the genome to lock it down like Fort Knox. Instead, large groupings of more than 1,000 ...

TFE3 fusion proteins are the oncogenic drivers of translocation renal cell carcinoma but their mechanism of action remains ...