The liver is critical to maintaining the functioning of the body as it processes nutrients from the diet, produces key ...

Scientists from The University of Manchester have changed our understanding of how cells in living organisms divide, which ...

A different kind of human cell division could improve our understanding of cancer and help us grow specific tissues ...

This integrated view of function and structure lays a foundation for ... With a reasonable definition of cell type — although probably not a final one — in hand, the team turned to the core ...

Researchers have produced the most detailed image to date of a bacteriophage -- phage for short -- that has allowed them to see for the first time the structural makeup of the part of the phage that ...

Cell crowding causes high-grade breast cancer cells to become more invasive by activating a molecular switch that causes the cells to shrink and spread.

structure and interactions of cellular molecules such as nucleic acids and proteins that carry out the biological processes essential for the cell s functions and maintenance. The cerebral ...

The 3D brain map includes more than 200,000 cells, 523 million synapses and over two miles of axons, representing the most ...

The trillions of cells that make up our skeleton age too, and some change in ways that weaken the very structure of our bones. Aging and stress can induce cellular senescence in osteocytes ...

The trillions of cells that make up our skeleton age too, and some change in ways that weaken the very structure of our bones. Scientists and researchers around the globe are investigating a ...

These results suggest that CXXC1 and Foxp3 collaborate to regulate Treg homeostasis and function by promoting Treg signature gene expression through maintaining H3K4me3 modification. Strengths: ...

Plant cells also contain large vacuoles and chloroplasts. Each organelle performs a specific function critical to the cell's survival (Table 1). Table 1. The structure and function of key eukaryotic ...