Combining ribosome profiling, cryo-electron tomography and photocrosslinking, researchers have revealed how the ER membrane ...

Cell death is rarely a tidy affair, but a newly proposed framework argues that one recently identified form of lytic cell ...

The Intracellular Quality Control Project at the Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical Science has identified a molecular ...

How do embryos develop? Why does the cortex of the mammalian brain fold? How do we feel touch at our fingertips? These and other fundamental biological questions remain unsolved. Yet, scientists know ...

Scientists have often thought of cells as small, bustling cities with parts that resemble factories, power grids and shipping systems. While past research has illuminated the individual components of ...

Cell membranes are the boundaries of living cells. They are made up of amphiphilic lipids, cholesterol, and membrane proteins arranged in a dynamic bilayer. They regulate signal transduction, ...

To sense their environment and respond accordingly, cells enlist membrane proteins as communication hubs, receiving molecular ...

Scientists at Scripps Research have engineered a synthetic protein capable of binding to Toll-like receptor 4 within the cell ...