A Cornell University-led collaboration has uncovered the equipment that enables bacteria to survive exposure to antibiotics: a shuttling mechanism that helps a complex of proteins pump out a wide ...

New research reveals that brain cells use a muscle-like signaling mechanism to relay information over long distances.

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Biologists had long believed that bringing order and organization to the chaos of molecules inside a cell depended on membrane-bound compartments called organelles, such as the mitochondria.

A recent study from Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India has revealed new details about how our cells clean up and recycle waste. This process, known as autophagy, is like a self ...

A recently published paper in Science China Life Sciences reports an interdisciplinary study utilizing single-cell sequencing data analysis to identify GPCRs involved in the regulation of adipogenesis ...

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cell wall synthesis and division. Native levels of Wag31 are critical for the maintenance and distribution of membrane lipids. Both depletion and overexpression of Wag31 perturbs lipid homeostasis, ...

Ubisoft is apparently endeavoring to work with Tencent to bring forth new ventures, one of which is the rumored Splinter Cell Remake. During an address, Guillemot confirmed numerous titles were in ...

really important to maintain any structure which has a membrane," Singh said. Take the electrolyte potassium, for example. It is the most abundant positively charged ion inside cells, but its ...