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 ...

The funding, provided through the Allen Distinguished Investigators, a program of The Paul G. Allen Frontiers Group at the Allen Institute, will fuel innovative research in Organelle Communication and ...

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

An important mechanism in fat cells (adipocytes) that allows them to safely enlarge to store energy has been discovered by a ...

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

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

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

Sites in Los Angeles and near San Francisco California are enrolling people with severe SCD for a trial to test a gene ...