Specialized cells in the human body make biological trade-offs to perform certain jobs. To support the large, hardworking hearts that power other organs, heart cells have evolved to be extremely ...

The vast majority of proteins in our bodies contain regions that are in a constant state of wiggling, shape-shifting every ...

In many animal tissues, stem cells continually divide to create new cells that replace old or damaged ones. However, this ...

How do blood vessels form to reliably supply the body with oxygen and nutrients? A research team at the University of Basel ...

From ATP production to cellular repair, mitochondrial resilience may help determine how well cells age and which strategies ...

By Marta Serafinko July 24 (Reuters) - High up on volcano summits, the Andean leaf-eared mouse is showing how life can thrive ...

The biologist’s bold “energetic view of life” looks to the body’s strangest organelles as the link between cells, health, and ...

This guide walks through the six core technical decisions required to bridge the gap between crude sample preparation and ...

Can the bend of a banana give us insight into cancer? What does the shape of a rice grain have to do with infertility? The proteins that give plants their shape and structure are also involved in ...

Asymmetric division partitions molecules into restricted cellular domains that shape future identities, yet protein profiling in these domains has been limited. We introduce a microprobe capillary ...

Targeted protein degradation (TPD) approaches including PROTAC and molecular glue have revolutionized drug discovery. However, in part due to complication of the ubiquitination and related ...