Axons in brain cells resemble a string of pearls rather than smooth tubes, according to Johns Hopkins researchers. This discovery, aided by advanced imaging and modeling, reveals how physical and ...

A team of UVM scientists led by Mark Nelson, Ph.D., from the Larner College of Medicine at the University of Vermont, has uncovered a novel mechanism that reshapes our understanding of how blood flow ...

In a subsequent step, dAdo enters the plant cell through the membrane transporter ENT3 ... A similar process occurs in human patients during interactions between the pathogenic bacterium ...

“We focus on hunter-gatherers because this way of life characterized 99% of human history,” said Barry Hewlett, a professor of anthropology at WSU and lead author of the study. “Our bodies and minds ...

Everyone knows the Neanderthals, homo sapiens, and Denisovans are amongst the first human species. The sapiens are considered the modern humans in that grouping that migrated out of Africa.

Kukushkin and colleagues set out to determine whether CREB in nonneuronal cells responds to incoming signals the same way. The researchers inserted an artificial gene into human embryonic kidney ...

Human skin cells have been reprogrammed into heart valve cells and then used to successfully transplant a pig heart valve into a rodent, led by the research of a Northeastern University professor.

The cells or tissues of NAc were homogenized in lysis buffer that includes 1% Nonidet P-40, 50 mM Tris-HCl, pH 7.5, 0.5% sodium deoxycholate, 150 mM NaCl, and protease inhibitors (Cocktail set III, ...

He is associated with a new series of podcasts on human evolution hosted by The Australian Museum. In pursuit of knowledge, the evolution of humanity ranks with the origins of life and the universe.

Human cells, for example ... "But having both a bilayer-forming lipid, which provides the basic structure for the cell membrane, and a non-bilayer-forming lipid, such as cholesterol, which ...

This platform is implemented using a three-dimensional engineered membrane made of ... similar to those found in human kidneys from human-induced pluripotent stem cells, achieving consistent ...

They presented their work in Nature Communications, in an article titled, “A bitter anti-inflammatory drug binds at two distinct sites of a human bitter ... outside the cell, like food or ...