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

Non-coding DNA is essential for both humans and trypanosomes, despite the large evolutionary divergence between these two species.

Complex sugar-protein molecules that sense external messages to help a cell grow or respond to its environment can now be ...

Actin is the most abundant protein in eukaryotic cells, at cellular concentrations generally above 100 mM. This abundance has made actin a focus of biochemical research since its identification by ...

In its effort to correlate genomic structure with gene function, the 4D Nucleome Consortium (4DN), led by Job Dekker, Ph.D., at UMass Chan Medical School, has extensively mapped and analyzed the three ...

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

Every time our body encounters a new disease-causing agent, a crucial defense system called adaptive immunity comes into play ...

New evidence shows that precursors of myelin-producing cells — one of the few #brain cell types that continue to be produced ...

Scientists have shown that specialized cells involved in how the body responds to insulin are activated in the brain after exercise, suggesting that physical activity may directly improve brain ...

Researchers from the University of Seville have participated in research to identify the molecular details of the regulation of an enzyme essential for sugar metabolism and closely linked to cell ...

Gut microbiome researcher Purna C. Kashyap, MBBS, shares the latest insights on the role of probiotics, disorders of the ...