A research team led by Prof. Jiang Yanyi from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has uncovered an important mechanism that enables squamous cell carcinoma (SCC ...

Insulin resistance precedes and predicts the onset of type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM2), a chronic disease that causes high ...

A research team has identified the transcription factor Lhx2 (LIM homeobox protein 2) as a key regulator in hepatic stellate ...

Endosomal recycling is a branch of intracellular membrane trafficking that retrieves endocytosed cargo proteins from early and late endosomes to prevent their degradatio ...

The research focuses on cells’ “feet,” which are small bundles of molecules that help cells move. Scientists are exploring ...

Caltech researchers demonstrated a new method to use light to control active matter—a kind of material made up of individual ...

Two Washington University in St. Louis faculty members are being honored by the Academy of Science - St. Louis for their ...

A complex molecular machine, the spliceosome, ensures that the genetic information from the genome, after being transcribed into mRNA precursors, is correctly assembled into mature mRNA. Splicing is a ...

Filopodia help cells move but also aid cancer spread. Scientists have revealed how fascin proteins build these structures, ...

Myosin II plays the most important role in cellular force generation. Myosin II molecules self-assemble into filaments with different structures depending on myosin II isoforms and other conditions ...

Every cell in the body normally has its fixed place as part of a tissue structure. Except for a few cell types, such as blood ...