A single-celled microbe that revels in Earth's most hostile salt lakes has the remarkable ability to transform its mote of a ...

As a graduate student, she worked on the membrane ... Larger animals exhibit the same startle response: Lit up along their light grooves, gulper eels look like cartoon electrocutions.

Scientists from The University of Manchester have changed our understanding of how cells in living organisms divide, which ...

Aquaporins are proteins that rapidly transport water across cell membranes while excluding salt. They are critical for maintaining the right balance of water inside and outside cells and for ...

Plant cells have several structures not found in other eukaryotes. In particular, organelles called chloroplasts allow plants to capture the energy of the Sun in energy-rich molecules; cell walls ...

When animals defecate, they shed living cells from their intestines, and these can be found on the outside of the dung, says Williams, a professor of fertility and reproductive health. Living ...

15 years ago, Müller and colleagues identified a receptor named MRGPRX2 in the mast cells’ membrane that “switches ... s efficacy and duration, more animal and eventually human trials will ...

When the LNPs rupture the endosomal membrane, proton ions are released into the cytoplasm, which activates TRIM25. These proton ions act as a signal that alerts the cell to the invading foreign ...

A genetics startup has created three pups that contain ancient DNA retrieved from the remains of the animal’s extinct ancestors. The first journalist to meet the wolves describes his trip to the ...