Understanding the origin of the building block of all animal and plant life may lead to more insights about life on Earth and ...

The University of California and the University of Vienna on Monday convinced a U.S. appeals court to revive their bid for ...

Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.” So goes the famous dictum of Sherlock Holmes, echoed by paleobotanist C. Kevin Boyce in summarizing ...

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

Sterols are among the most abundant lipids in eukaryotic cells, yet are synthesized through notoriously long, complex metabolic pathways. Researchers have used a novel approach to show how they ...

New research from the Sainsbury Laboratory at the University of Cambridge has shed light on how plants precisely control ...

New studies show that astrocytes, long thought to be support cells in the brain, are crucial intermediaries for relaying messages to neurons.

New research has shed light on how plants precisely control their growth and development, revealing that seemingly similar molecular components fulfill surprisingly different jobs. New research ...

Manufacturing CAR T cells in the laboratory is expensive and time-consuming. An in vivo approach could get the powerful ...

To build their self-reproduction structures, the team began with an aqueous solution containing monomers to be polymerized, a ...

Then they used CAR T cell therapy to train the body's immune system to look for that synthetic antigen and destroy the marked tumor cells. "Tumor cells are sneaky. Most of the time, immune cells ...