Most cell signals are chemical in nature. For example, prokaryotic organisms have sensors that detect nutrients and help them navigate toward food sources. In multicellular organisms, growth ...

The endoplasmic reticulum (ER) is the portion of the cell responsible for manufacturing and folding proteins. Proteins are ...

By analyzing huge amounts of biological data, the use of machine learning accelerates the identification of critical control hubs that are sensitive to changes in the network structure of the total ...

The work entitled “ Semen podocarpi extract enhances radiosensitivity in nasopharyngeal carcinoma cells via Raf/MEK/ERK ...

The Wingless (Wg) signaling pathway is known to be responsible for one of these constrictions, but until now the underlying mechanism regulating this was not known. "We knew that Wingless ...

In an effort to understand how brain cells exchange chemical messages, scientists say they have successfully used a highly specialized microscope to capture more precise details of how one of the most ...