Cytoskeleton rearrangements promote formation of a giant structure called a GUVac that stops cells from dying when they become detached from the extracellular matrix.

In a study, scientists challenge a fundamental tenet in neuroscience about the shape of axons -- the long, thin filaments radiating from nerve cells that transmit electrical signals from cell to cell ...

What does it take to design a new needle for medical use? When the needle needs to be much thinner and sharper than any ...

Drs Kathy Miller and Francisco J. Esteva discuss testing and therapeutic options for the new classification of HER2-ultra-low breast cancer.

Membrane contact sites (MCSs) are specialized regions where the membranes of different organelles come into close proximity, but without actual contacts, ...

The ear has 3 parts. Conductive hearing ... The stereocilia of the outer hair cells are embedded in the overlying gelatinous tectorial membrane. The perilymph fluid wave causes a frequency ...

Using the principles of bottom-up synthetic biology, researchers can now reintroduce different parts of the lipidome ... A tuneable minimal cell membrane reveals that two lipid species suffice ...

Heather Rosentrater, who has spent her entire professional career with the utility, has a firm grasp on the company’s ...

A breakthrough in understanding how a single-cell parasite makes ergosterol (its version of cholesterol) could lead to more ...

This study presents poly(4-(p-styryl)-1-butanephosphonic acid) (sbPA) membranes as a stable, high-performance alternative for ...

Researchers from Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology created an innovative technology that significantly ...

A new role has been uncovered for a cell's own RNA in fending off attacks by RNA viruses. Some of the cell's RNA molecules, researchers found, help regulate antiviral signaling. These signals are part ...