Tag: Cell Biology

Reducing abnormal protein accumulation linked to disease may lie in improving regulation of critical cholesterol in neuronsCredit: Thomas Deerinck of ...

Credit: Photo courtesy of the School of Science INDIANAPOLIS -- IUPUI biologists, growing human pluripotent stem cell-derived retinal ganglion cells ...

The synthesis and transport of biological lipids across the mostly water-filled interior of the cell is a longstanding problem in ...

Credit: Kanazawa University Growth factors are ligands that play important roles in the body - they are responsible for tissue ...

Credit: Bjorn Panyella Pedersen, Aarhus University Sugar transport through Sugar Transport Proteins (STP) is unique to plants, and is important ...

The crucial hormone insulin needs help acquiring the right structure. A protein that assists in the process of insulin folding ...

Credit: © Helmholtz Zentrum München Patients undergoing long-term treatment with steroids may suffer from metabolic side effects. Researchers at the ...

Immune cells called CD4+ T cells could be important mediators of protection against the Zika virus, according to a study ...

Forty-two years after Carl Woese defined archaea as the third domain of life, scientists at the Carl R. Woese Institute ...

These kidney macrophages reprogram to a developmental state after kidney injury, similar to those in newborn mice.Credit: UAB BIRMINGHAM, Ala. ...

Cells use 'battering ram' to get around cancer drugCredit: Images courtesy of Laura Kelley, Duke University. DURHAM, N.C. -- Nearly ...

MU researchers gain a greater understanding of cell behavior by developing theoretical model of how proteins work with cell membranes ...

Custom synthetic DNA vaccines elicit efficacious killer T-cell responses that significantly delay tumor progression in lung and ovarian cancer preclinical ...

Discovery of a mechanism that produces reactive oxygen species and invites cellular senescenceCredit: Kobe University Permanently arrested cell growth is ...