Ryan Notti (left) and Thomas Walz (right) discovered new characteristics of a T cell receptor that are essential to a variety ...

An innovative three-color method for capturing images of mRNA inside live mammalian cells has been developed by UMass Amherst chemists. Because RNA is both incredibly important to human life and ...

Closely related subtypes of dopamine-releasing neurons may play entirely separate roles in processing sensory information, ...

What keeps our cells the right size? Scientists have long puzzled over this fundamental question, since cells that are too ...

Closely related subtypes of dopamine-releasing neurons may play entirely separate roles in processing sensory information, ...

Scientists identify the first non-coding gene that directly controls cell size, reshaping how biology explains growth and ...

Cancer patients often lose excessive amounts of weight. This affects up to 80% of patients and is mainly due to a decrease in ...

SickKids researchers discovered that a long non-coding RNA, CISTR-ACT, directly regulates cell size. Using gene-editing tools ...

What keeps our cells the right size? Scientists have long puzzled over this fundamental question, since cells that are too large or too small are linked to many diseases. Until now, the genetic basis ...

Researchers have come up with a clever new way of freezing brain cells just as they fire out a signal, meaning processes that ...

Closely related dopamine-releasing neurons in the olfactory bulb behave in fundamentally different ways depending on their physical structure.

Proteins need to fold into specific shapes to perform their functions in cells, but they occasionally misfold, which can ...