A cell’s primary cilia function like antennae. Operating like a 24/7 news outlet, these hairlike structures are present on ...

Two new studies found that a small, missing piece of DNA located next to a specific protein resulted in orange fur coloration ...

Researchers at the Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine have uncovered a key primary step in the hepatic ERK pathway ...

Disease-causing mutations in the signaling protein BMP4 impair its secretion, but only when it is made as a homodimer.

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Researchers at MIT have uncovered a powerful way the brain "unlearns" fear: through a dopamine-driven reward signal. By ...

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Heme oxygenase 1 (HO-1) has an influential yet insufficiently investigated effect on Sirtuin 1 (SIRT1), a histone deacetylase ...

While some animals like mammals have a limited ability to regenerate lost tissues, planarians can be cut roughly in half and regenerate either an entire head or entire tail, depending on which part of ...

Some deubiquitinating enzymes may help protect against cancer, but others appear to promote it. Researchers from the First Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University have discovered that the ...