Axons in brain cells resemble a string of pearls rather than smooth tubes, according to Johns Hopkins researchers. This ...

Channels in plant cell walls, called plasmodesmata, provide molecules with a bridge to move between cells, an essential ...

Lipids, or fats, are essential to life. They form the membranes around cells, protecting them from the outside. In nature, ...

Membrane trafficking is the process by which proteins and other macromolecules are distributed throughout the cell, and released to or internalised from the extracellular space. Membrane ...

Dec. 10, 2024 — In a single IV injection, a gene therapy targeting cBIN1 can reverse the effects of heart failure and restore heart function in a large animal model. The therapy increases the ...

Dec. 9, 2024 — Metastasis is responsible for 90 percent of cancer deaths. Researchers have found that the mutations driving it may stem from a commonly inherited ... Dec. 4, 2024 — Researchers ...

While writing a biology textbook, we can logically define two biological terms as follows: A Eukaryotic cell is a cell that contains a nucleus surrounded by a membrane. An enzyme is a ...

New research reveals that centromeres, which are responsible for proper cell division, can rapidly reorganize over short time scales. Biologists at the University of Rochester are calling a ...

a unit of heredity which is transferred from a parent to offspring and is held to determine some characteristic of the offspring one of two or more alternative forms of a gene that arise by mutation ...

Test your knowledge, for never was a quiz of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo. The new Broadway production of “Romeo and Juliet” stars Rachel Zegler and Kit Connor and features ...