Sterols, such as cholesterol in our bodies or ergosterol in yeast cells, are among the most abundant lipids in eukaryotic ...

The work tests and revises a 50-year old textbook model, known as the Bloch hypothesis, for the evolution of sterol metabolism in eukaryotic cells. The results indicate that the complexity of sterol ...

Chemistry professor Chris Chang’s lab studies the chemical biology of the elements, specifically examining the roles that ...

A review led by Academician Yulong Yin from the Institute of Subtropical Agriculture of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has ...

Breakthrough Discovery Explained In theory, the difference between a man-made machine and biology is pretty clear. Our inventions mostly run on electricity, while life, from bacteria to humans, runs ...

One-way ordinary ANOVA tests with no pairing were used to compare the mean of each textile dye to the mean of a solvent control group to test the effects on mitochondrial respiration, as well as to ...

Sara Hawkins teaches a project-based biology ... what cell part superheroes might look like. To get information to integrate into their story, students did the following: • participated in labs on ...

Next, we showed that ONC206 induces mitochondrial dysfunction, which limits tumor cell respiration and activates cell death pathways. After a 120h treatment with ONC206, we observed upregulation of ...