Local families may have noticed an increase in children being diagnosed with pneumonia this fall. Virginia Department of ...

Kazumitsu Ueda, PhD from Kyoto University, WPI-iCeMS, unveils the mystery of cholesterol homeostasis in this cell biology ...

Microtubules tend to grow out from the centrosome to the plasma membrane. In nondividing cells, microtubule networks radiate out from the centrosome to provide the basic organization of the ...

Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory study suggests that a Faraday screen can help achieve the extreme temperatures needed for nuclear fusion.

At night, charged particles from the sun caught by Earth's magnetosphere rain down into the atmosphere. The impacting ...

Almost 35% of drugs approved by the Food and Drug Administration work by targeting G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs), ...

Houston Methodist researchers have discovered that certain components of so-called “good” cholesterol -- high-density ...

Knockout of ATG5 blocked trafficking of a key glucose transporter sorted by the retromer, GLUT1, to the plasma membrane. Knockouts of other genes essential for membrane atg8ylation, of which ATG5 is a ...

This paper presents the important discovery that lipid metabolic imbalance caused by Snail, an EMT-related transcription factor, contributes to the acquisition of chemoresistance in cancer cells.

NASA astronaut Suni Williams, who is currently serving as Expedition 72 Commander on the ISS, smiles for a photo with the robotic flyer in the Kibo laboratory module in a new image shared by NASA.

Exosomes are a small, specific type of extracellular vesicle (EV), a kind of membrane-enclosed package ... be correct at time of publishing. Text, images, and links may be edited, removed, or ...

If you’re chasing that youthful glow but cringe at the thought of needles or lasers, your answer might be as easy as adding a ...