In a new Nature Communications study, scientists have developed a novel method for artificial cells to interact with their ...

Discover how a breakthrough in adipocyte mechanisms protects against tissue damage and paves the way for new metabolic ...

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

A research team has identified an essential mechanism in fat cells (adipocytes) that enables them to enlarge safely to store ...

Fatty acid biosynthesis is an energy-intensive biosynthetic pathway, and the production of the building blocks for membrane phospholipids is precisely regulated to match the rate of cell division.

“Understanding the structure of axons is important for understanding brain cell signaling,” says Shigeki Watanabe, Ph.D., ...

In some cases, however, brains outlast all other soft tissues and remain intact for hundreds or thousands of years.

A new study challenges the long-held belief that axons, brain cell extensions, are tube-like, revealing instead a "pearl-on-a ...

A CNIC study published in Nature Communications reveals that caveolae in adipocytes help safely store excess fat, preventing ...

Stem cells in the intestine can adjust their function by using PIEZO channels that sense extracellular forces and activate mechanical signals ...

A team at the Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares (CNIC), led by Professor Miguel Ángel del Pozo Barriuso, who heads the Mechanoadaptation and Caveolae Biology group at the CNIC, has ...

Biology textbooks may need a revision, say scientists, who present new evidence that an arm-like structure of mammalian brain cells may be a different shape than scientists have assumed for more than ...