Yale researchers are providing new insights into how physical forces, such as cells being compressed in physically ...

In biology classes from high school through university, I learned that mitochondria are little objects that reside within ...

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

Inmates at a Missouri prison have filed a lawsuit claiming they're suffering from life-threatening extreme heat in their un-air-conditioned cells during the summer. The suit claims that the ...

Seed plants, such as soybeans, store large amounts of protein in specialized organelles called protein storage vacuoles.

Researchers have discovered how an ion channel in the brain’s neurons has a kind of ‘molecular memory’, which contributes to the formation and preservation of lifelong memories. The researchers have ...

Bats harbor viral human pathogens without getting sick. A new cell line could open doors to new therapies based on these flying mammals’ immune secrets. “The only way we're going to learn where the ...

We know that the global healthcare sector is a contributor to the warming of our planet. It is responsible for 4.4% of annual carbon emissions; if the sector were a country, it would be the world ...

and is associated with stricture formation and bowel obstruction. How creeping fat forms is unknown, and we interrogated potential mechanisms using novel intestinal tissue and cell interaction systems ...

This section marks the latest completed step of BacSim development, the inclusion of Extracellular Polymeric Substances (EPS) formation in the model. The structure of the biofilm was dramatically ...