Our skin and mucous membranes are protected by epithelial cells. This barrier tissue performs its function thanks to ...

Northwestern Medicine investigators have uncovered new insights into how intercellular "glue" functions to enable ...

A new part of an ocean plant cell has been discovered that might revolutionize farming one day. The structure can take ...

Researchers have revealed for the first time how a key protein linked to Parkinson's mutates, leads to cell death in the ...

The discovery sheds light on how certain bacteria -- including strains that cause food poisoning and anthrax -- form spores for survival.

Chemical and biomolecular engineers at Georgia Tech have developed a plug-and-play platform that's simple, flexible, and easy ...

Our bodies response to invading pathogens through different mechanisms of the immune system. Innate immunity first detects ...

A screen of human-infecting viruses identified extensive examples of viral proteins that resembled human sequences, which ...

Organelles in cells were originally often independent cells, which were incorporated by host cells and lost their ...

It’s worth stressing that a life-threatening protein deficiency is rare. That said, there are signs that you’re not getting ...

In experiments conducted at the University of São Paulo, tumor stem cells became less able to proliferate and invade tissues ...

Targeted inhibition of a "signal jammer" protein may improve how tumors respond to immunotherapy. Published today in Nature, a new study demonstrates how some cancer cells use the protein ...