An international group of researchers led by Pompeu Fabra University has discovered the nanomachine that controls ...

Metabolism, far from being just a housekeeping function, underlies all changes in cell size and function ...

To stay healthy, our cells rely on a self-cleaning mechanism that removes defective or unnecessary components. This process, ...

Cilia are evolutionarily conserved, microtubule-based organelles that project from the surface of most eukaryotic cells and play a central role in sensing ...

Background Both host and microbe metabolism of tryptophan (Trp) is altered in diabetes; however, the molecular mechanisms are ...

Jellyfish sleep around eight hours a night, take short daytime naps, and compensate for lost rest,all without having a brain. These behaviors, revealed in a new study, suggest sleep may be far more ...

After three years of study, the researchers found that alpha-synuclein, a protein closely linked to Parkinson’s disease, ...

UCSF scientists discover that the spindle, the structure that divides chromosomes equally during mitosis, actually gets stronger when it is stretched.

In research that could shed light on the growth and formation of complex tissue architectures, Brown University engineers ...

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