Over the last two decades, scientific attention has increasingly shifted toward understanding how cellular energy system ...

A team of researchers led by Dr. Kim V. Narry, director of the Center for RNA Research at the Institute for Basic Science (IBS), has uncovered a key cellular mechanism that affects the function of ...

Skin wound healing shows a unique cellular function mechanism involving the interaction of several cells, growth factors, and ...

An international team led by researchers from the University Medical Center Göttingen (UMG), Germany, has used advanced ...

Researchers at the Earlham Institute, the University of Edinburgh and Heriot-Watt University analyzed gut cells to understand ...

Cells face constant threats from inside and out. Thus, they’ve evolved sophisticated stress response pathways such as the unfolded protein response (UPR), ...

Cellular injury entails disruptions in a cell's structure or function triggered by factors such as physical trauma, chemical ...

The mystery of how cancers build up resistance mechanisms and evade the treatments that should have destroyed them is a hugely pressing question. Overcoming cancer treatment resistance—a phenomenon ...

Hepatitis B virus is a viral infection which affects the liver and can result in permanent liver damage. It is currently the leading cause of chronic liver diseases and millions of individuals are ...

Electron micrographs show typical microglia in the prefrontal cortex of a 92-year-old healthy female (left) and dark microglia a 91-year-old female patient with Alzheimer’s disease (right). Microglia, ...

Damage to the genetic material of mitochondria – the mitochondrial DNA or mtDNA for short – can lead to diseases such as Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), cardiovascular ...