Image: High-resolution structure of the human protein complex SIN3B. Credit: Wan, Muhammad et al 2023. Researchers have revealed, at high-resolution, the structure of a human protein complex named ...

In a new study, published today (12 July) in Nature, researchers have produced the most detailed and comprehensive human Heart Cell Atlas to date, including the specialized tissue of the cardiac ...

Open any introductory biology textbook, and you'll see a familiar diagram: A blobby-looking cell filled with brightly colored structures – the inner machinery that makes the cell tick. Cell biologists ...

Cancer cells are more dependent on a cellular garbage disposal unit -- the proteasome -- than healthy cells, and cancer therapies take advantage of this dependency. Scientists have determined the ...

Cody Cottier is a freelance journalist for Discover Magazine, who frequently covers new scientific studies about animal behavior, human evolution, consciousness, astrophysics, and the environment.

Scientists from Oxford's Radcliffe Department of Medicine have achieved the most detailed view yet of how DNA folds and ...

Using state-of-the-art electron microscopy techniques, researchers have for the first time visualized and described the precise arrangement of chemoreceptors -- the receptors that sense and respond to ...

P-type ATPases use the energy from ATP hydrolysis to pump ions across the cell membrane against a concentration gradient. They form a large family of ubiquitous membrane proteins, and carry out many ...