Cells manage a wide range of functions in their tiny package — growing, moving, housekeeping, and so on — and most of those functions require energy. But how do cells get this energy in the first ...

Diets and healthy eating habits hold promise for preventing and treating diseases, but far less is known about acute effects ...

For decades, depression has been explained to patients as a “chemical imbalance” in the brain, a vague phrase that never ...

A new Cell study suggests that T cell exhaustion in tumors is driven in part by failed proteostasis, causing damaged and ...

An often-ignored type of cell in the brain plays a dynamic and surprisingly complex role in our ability to process information, according to new research. An often-ignored type of cell in the brain ...

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital scientists have discovered how tumors disable immune "gatekeeper" cells that alert the rest of the immune system to the presence of cancer - and how restoring ...

A Moffitt Cancer Center researcher has introduced a new model that addresses one of biology's most fundamental questions: How ...

A team led by UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers has uncovered the atomic structure of a protein complex pivotal to the function of motile cilia, the hair-like structures extending from the ...

As far as research subjects go, it's not always easy to find common ground with a single-celled bacterium. Yet the more Paul ...

CRISPRgenee is a new method that combines gene silencing and cutting to improve loss-of-function studies in human cells. (Nanowerk News) The 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded for the ...

Diabetes mellitus affects more than 500 million people worldwide, and both Type 1 (T1D) and Type 2 (T2D) forms converge on a common endpoint: the loss or ...