When oil is dropped in water, the oil droplets stay separate. Cells can also use a system like this to separate or gather materials, encouraging various reactions and processes to occur. Scientists ...
A Moffitt Cancer Center researcher has introduced a new model that addresses one of biology's most fundamental questions: How ...
For decades, depression has been explained to patients as a “chemical imbalance” in the brain, a vague phrase that never ...
In mouse brain cells, and in follow-up work involving worms and human cortical neurons, the team found that many axons ...
Glial cells, also known as neuroglia, are non-neuronal cells that play a crucial role in various neurophysiological processes. They not only support nervous system structures but also contribute to ...
Until now, doctors knew hepatic stellate cells mainly as drivers of liver fibrosis. The actual functions of this cell type have hardly been studied to date. Researchers have now determined that ...
A system once tied to DNA organization in cyanobacteria has evolved into a structure that shapes the cell itself. This shift ...