Cells carry their own growth switches. When enough nutrients—amino acids in particular—are available, cells flip this switch ...

Most cancer deaths are caused not by the initial tumor but by the spread of cancer cells to distant organs in the process ...

A metal contact process improves solar cell efficiency to 26.31% by reducing energy losses and supporting large-scale ...

Neurons transmit information to the next cell by converting electrical signals into chemical signals. A critical step in this ...

Every cell carefully builds and positions thousands of proteins that allow it to sense and respond to its surroundings. Even ...

Cancer adapts and overcomes many different obstacles in order to survive. Since tumors are masses of rapidly growing cells, ...

Xenophagocytosis is a natural immune process that limits interspecies organ generation by eliminating living donor cells, ...

A protein and signaling pathway may help overcome the developmental block that keeps some leukemia cells immature.

Researchers led by Sa Kan Yoo at the RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research (BDR) in Japan have discovered that the ...

The results suggest that successful spinal cord regeneration depends not simply on activating or suppressing immunity, but on ...

Serial assessments for neurodevelopmental disorders should take place earlier and more often for people with sickle cell ...

Researchers led by Sa Kan Yoo at the RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research (BDR) in Japan have discovered that the natural turnover of gut cells in the fruit fly depends on how much food the ...