Researchers say findings help to bridge the structure of the genome to its function in managing how genes are turned on and off.

A team of researchers at The University of Texas at Austin and the University of Porto have created a new way to target ...

Researchers in Göttingen, Germany, have elucidated the structure and function of otoferlin, a protein that plays a crucial ...

Some cells, such as immune cells, are highly mobile—they constantly remodel their shape, migrate toward a wound that needs to ...

Lipids are fatty molecules that play critical roles in cell function, including membrane structure, energy storage and ...

Before cells can divide, they first need to replicate all of their chromosomes, so that each of the daughter cells can ...

MIT scientists have overturned the belief that genome structure vanishes during cell division. Using high-resolution genome ...

Researchers from the University of Turku and Turku University Hospital, Finland, and Örebro University, Sweden, have discovered that the levels of PFAS in mothers’ blood during pregnancy is associated ...

Some eukaryotes consist of a single cell; but most single-celled creatures are made of simpler cells which lack obvious subdivisions and in which membranes are used almost exclusively to define the ...

New discoveries about the malaria parasite made by researchers at Columbia and Drexel universities could change the way ...

Scientists at University of California San Diego have developed a new approach to destroying cancer stem cells—hard-to-find ...

A new study led by Rice University's Pernilla Wittung-Stafshede has revealed that protein clumps, or plaques that clog the brain, associated with Parkinson's disease are not merely waste; they can ...