Researchers have identified ancient proteins that may help explain how the first complex cells evolved from simpler ones over 15 billion years ago I ...
Autophagy, the cell's essential housekeeping process, involves degrading and recycling damaged organelles, proteins, and ...
A new method based on optical tweezers can measure viscoelasticity of biological materials in a simpler and more versatile ...
The composition of nodes that effectively transmit sinusoidal waves in a model network resembling C. elegans' electrical synapses network changes according to the waves' wavenumber.
A novel molecular tool developed by a Lehigh University professor of biological sciences is enabling scientists to precisely ...
Stable intracellular recordings had resting membrane potentials more negative than –55 mV and overshooting action potentials. Stimulations of the ventrolateral (VL) thalamic nucleus and motor ...
Scans showing plastics (in green) entering tissue (blue for the cell nucleus, red for the cell membrane). (Banaei et al., Chemosphere, 2024) The research team is calling for more to be done to ...