The tiny pantheon known as the Asgard archaea bear traits that hint at how plants, animals and fungi emerged on Earth.

Dynamin is a protein that plays a central role in endocytosis—the process where cells internalize substances by wrapping them in cell membrane vesicles. For a vesicle to detach, the neck of the ...

Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have identified a protein that causes human cell membranes to break open in a ...

A new Dartmouth study opens new avenues for understanding—and potentially manipulating—how cells decide to live or die.

People with anxiety disorders have an average of 8% lower levels of choline, a vital nutrient, than healthy participants.

When a cell receives a message from outside, it generates a molecule called cyclic AMP (cAMP) to relay this message. To ensure the signal reaches the correct effector without triggering pathways ...

Researchers at Helmholtz Munich, the Technical University of Munich and the LMU University Hospital Munich uncovered a ...

To better understand illnesses that originate in the body, including cancer as well as autoimmune and neurological disorders, ...

Background Chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection disproportionately affects people living with HIV, who are often excluded from functional cure studies. Objective This study investigates CD8+ T ...

A team of Korean scientists has developed a separator technology that dramatically reduces the explosion risk of lithium ...

In the fight against disease, programmed cell death – also known as apoptosis – is a key protective function of the body. It breaks down cells that are damaged or have undergone dangerous changes.

The activation and deactivation of apoptosis is a promising field of research in basic biomedical research. The team led by Prof. Franz Hagn from the Chair of Structural Membrane Biochemistry at the ...