Researchers at UT San Antonio have uncovered new details about electrical signals happening within nerve cells, deepening ...

Researchers at Tulane University, with a team of colleagues from eight other universities, have discovered a new nerve cell ...

Researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine say they have used a "zap-and-freeze" technology to watch hard-to-see brain cell ...

Dehn AS, Duhaime L, Gogna N, Nishina PM, Kelley K, and Losick VP. Epithelial mechanics are maintained by inhibiting cell fusion with age in Drosophila. Journal of Cell Science. 2023. Oct 15; 136 (20): ...

Chemistry prize for understanding how cells sense their environment. To clarify your own explanation you should instead say that the protein is in the cell membrane. Many organisms with GPCRs (like ...

When sperm meets egg, the start of life is not quiet. Under a special microscope, researchers have watched a tiny light show ...

The anchor points present on the surface of the airways in cystic fibrosis (left, in red) decrease when the balance between the two cell signalling pathways is restored (right). Cystic fibrosis is a ...

Morris F. White (Joslin Diabetes Center and Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston): "Nailing down the pathways involved in insulin signaling and identifying the ones that fail in 12 ...

The emergence of cancer drug resistance remains one of the most pressing problems in cancer care and there is a critical need ...

Scientists from Tulane University and The University of Texas at Dallas have discovered a new way that nerve cells communicate – by releasing an enzyme outside the cell that switches on pain signaling ...