A new method based on optical tweezers can measure viscoelasticity of biological materials in a simpler and more versatile ...

Autophagy, the cell's essential housekeeping process, involves degrading and recycling damaged organelles, proteins, and ...

In an intriguing revelation from recent research, mitochondria have been shown not only to power the cell but also to ...

A research team has clarified a mechanism of how retrotransposons, genetic elements that can 'jump around' chromosomes and are known drivers of evolution, preferentially insert in the centromere.