The mere presence of a dead counterpart elicits strong responses across species. For example, many insects such as bees and ...

In biology classes from high school through university, I learned that mitochondria are little objects that reside within ...

Measuring the density of a cell can reveal a great deal about the cell's state. As cells proliferate, differentiate, or undergo cell death, they may gain or lose water and other molecules, which is ...

This study identifies 53BP1 as an interaction partner of GMCL1 (a likely CUL3 substrate receptor). The study seeks to link this finding to regulation of the mitotic surveillance pathway and paclitaxel ...

Doctor Jayakrishna Ambati and his research team have begun work on a new drug called K9 which could treat and prevent ...

My search for answers to these stupendously ambitious questions led me, it now seems inexorably, to mitochondria. This idea of mitochondria being little batteries with a built-in charger, about as ...

Federally funded Johns Hopkins team finds the virus ‘reprograms’ neutrophils to impair production of immune cells critical ...

A combination of two drugs could improve outcomes and reduce the need for toxic chemotherapy for B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (B-ALL), the commonest cancer in childhood and one that can be ...

Apoptosis is a mechanism of programmed cell death and is essential for development and homeostasis. Cell stress stimulates pro-apoptotic signalling pathways that activate caspase proteases and ...

A man who spent months in a Kansas City jail waiting to be transferred to a state psychiatric hospital for court-ordered ...