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

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Membrane biophysics is the study of the physical ... and the effect they have on paracellular transport and phenomena relating to cell shape. The kinetics of assembly and Ca 2+-dependent ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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