Although heart cells and skin cells contain identical instructions for creating proteins encoded in their DNA, they're able ...
EMBL researchers have been using a powerful technique called expansion microscopy to peek deeper inside living organisms and ...
Scientists have created the world’s first mosquito cell map, revealing how these insects spread diseases like dengue and Zika ...
In recognition of her fundamental contributions to the understanding of the targeting process of proteins to organelles and the discovery of several contact sites of organelles, Prof. Maya Schuldiner ...
How do stem cells know what to become? Nearly three decades after scientists isolated the first human embryonic stem cells, researchers are still working hard to understand precisely how a single, ...
Scientists have identified a new anti-ageing drug class that works by acting on a key gut bacteria process, an advance that may lead to ways to prolong lifespan in humans. Researchers from Queen Mary ...
When pathogens enter our cells as part of an infection, our body will trigger a programmed cell death known as "pyroptosis" ...
A pandemic-era breakthrough has allowed scientists to literally expand our view of plankton. By using ultrastructure expansion microscopy, researchers visualized the inner workings of hundreds of ...