New research from the Sainsbury Laboratory at the University of Cambridge has shed light on how plants precisely control ...

Cells are the smallest units of life. But even within the same tissue or organ, they are not all identical. New variations arise continuously during cell proliferation. While genetic mutations alter ...

Measuring the density of a cell can reveal a great deal about the cell's state. As cells proliferate, differentiate, or ...

Brains are made up of many different types of neurons (nerve cells in the brain), each of which are thought to play different roles in processing information. Scientists have long been able to use ...

When an adult individual's brain cells are subjected to hypoxia, such as during a stroke, they die relatively violently by going into necrosis and causing an inflammation. If an infant suffers from ...

State Key Laboratory of Organic Electronics and Information Displays & Institute of Advanced Materials (IAM), Nanjing University of Posts & Telecommunications, Nanjing 210003,China ...

The largest study to date of most common form of testicular cancer has uncovered a possible link between disease risk and variations in the genes controlling cell shape and movement. By investigating ...

These methods have immediately become the approach of choice for membrane protein structure determination in our laboratory. Integral membrane protein structure determination traditionally requires ...

The taxonomic analysis results indicate that at the bacterial phylum level, the community structure composition of different groups is characterized by predominant bacterial phyla including ...