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The power of sound reaches far beyond your ears. While you're used to hearing sound through music, voices, or noise, your ...
Just a few years after his co-discovery of stem cells in blood in 1963 – a feat that transformed human cell biology and opened ... came from a modest farming background, lean, tall, tidy and ...
Have you been hearing about the dire wolf lately? Maybe you saw a massive white wolf on the cover of Time magazine or a photo ...
Cell biology is the discipline of biological sciences that studies the structure, physiology, growth, reproduction and death of cells. Research in cell biology uses microscopic and molecular tools ...
However, the cell division of embryonic cells is asymmetric. A team led by Prof. Dr. Esther Zanin at the Department of Biology at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU ...
A collaborative team from the School of Engineering and Applied Science and the Perelman School of Medicine have unraveled the mathematics of a 500-million-year-old protein network that acts like ...
Astrocytes are star shaped cells that make up around 35% of human brain cells. They were once thought of as cells that simply supported neurons in the central nervous system (CNS). But in recent years ...
For the first time, researchers have identified a protein that represses the activity of energy-burning brown fat. The ...
In presynaptic nerve terminals, the endocytic apparatus rapidly restores synaptic vesicles after neurotransmitter release. Many endocytic proteins localize to the periactive zone, a loosely defined ...
This valuable manuscript investigates the localisation of nutrient receptors in bloodstream stage trypanosomes, with implications for both nutrient uptake and immune evasion. Results after direct ...