Researchers from Kyushu University have developed an innovative computational method, called ddHodge, that can reconstruct ...

Calcium (Ca2+) drives many cellular functions, though the way it controls quality of proteins in the endoplasmic reticulum ...

Many biological processes are regulated by electricity—from nerve impulses to heartbeats to the movement of molecules in and ...

When killer T cells of our immune system divide, they normally undergo asymmetric cell division (ACD): Each daughter cell ...

One of the biggest risk factors for developing liver cancer is a high-fat diet. A new study from MIT reveals how a fatty diet ...

Researchers at the Max Delbrück Center have found that a cellular housekeeping mechanism called autophagy plays a major role ...

A combination of two supplements — resveratrol and copper — reduced the aggressiveness of tumors in glioblastoma, a type of ...

Researchers discovered that a long-misunderstood protein plays a key role in helping chromosomes latch onto the right “tracks” during cell division. Instead of acting like a motor, it works more like ...

It has been claimed that because most of our DNA is active, it must be important, but now human-plant hybrid cells have been ...

Three-dimensional multicellular human liver model: For the first time, a 3D human organoid model, developed with liver tissue ...

For decades, biology has relied on one central assumption: the genetic code is precise. DNA is transcribed into RNA, RNA is ...

Tooth loss doesn't just make eating harder, it may also make thinking more challenging. A new study from Hiroshima University ...