From a tiny sample of tissue no larger than a grain of sand, scientists have come within reach of a goal once thought unattainable: building a complete functional wiring diagram of a portion of the ...

A research team has uncovered the mechanism and underlying reason behind the transformation of residual cells into epidermal ...

Researchers are studying why the energy factories are moving between cells and whether the process can be harnessed to treat ...

Only after they bump into other fibers do they start to intertwine and assemble into the organized structure of the cell wall. “It was a two-step process. That was something we did not expect ...

Scientists at CNIC have identified a specialized group of neutrophils in the skin that produce extracellular matrix. This ...

Scientists at Johns Hopkins Medicine say they have discovered how a group of proteins linked to Parkinson's disease and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis act as "guardians" of mitochondria, small ...

Purdue University scientists have discovered a key mechanism that regulates how plants develop chloroplasts, essential structures responsible for the photosynthesis that sustains life on Earth by ...

In the ER, the nascent peptides gain their correctly folded structure and other posttranslational ... The reflux process is constitutively activated in cancer cells, causing many proteins to be ...

Nucleus Control centre of the cell. It contains the cell’s genetic information arranged in chromosomes. Chromosomes Threadlike structure found in the nucleus. Made of DNA which contains the ...

In all, they collected data that covers about 3.4 miles (5.4 kilometers) of neuronal wiring in a part of the brain that processes visual information from the eyes. Listen to Story They worked out the ...

In general, plants employ a variety of cell-surface and intracellular immune ... MAMP perception triggers a rapid influx of calcium ions into the cytosol, activating downstream signaling cascades ...