Microtubules, the dynamic filaments that form the cell's internal scaffolding, have long been viewed as mere passive structural supports. But a new study reveals they play a far more active signaling ...

UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers have identified how the quintessential immune protein known as stimulator of ...

Johns Hopkins and other BRAIN Initiative Cell Atlas Network (BICAN) researchers have enhanced a cellular road map of how the ...

What do the feeling of an ice cube against your skin and the cool minty blast of toothpaste have in common? Both activate our ...

When you reach into a bucket of ice, open your front door on a snowy day, or feel the tingle of menthol toothpaste, a protein ...

There are plenty of long-lived organisms out there. Lonesome George the giant tortoise made it past 100; Maria Branyas Morera ...

Scientists have discovered that losing a key protein in small cell lung cancer triggers inflammation that actually helps ...

In a bid to better understand, and potentially treat, a host of conditions that affect early cognition, neurodevelopment and the brain later in life, investigators at Johns Hopkins Medicine and ...