The hippocampus is an important brain region known to support various cognitive (i.e., mental) processes, including the ...

A new discovery inside your cells may change how scientists understand disease and design future treatments. Researchers have ...

The table below list organelles, their function and the types of cell that they can be found in. Can you fill in the blanks to complete the table? Cell structure Description Function Cell type ...

Our cells produce a variety of proteins, each with a specific role that, in many cases, means that they need to be in a ...

Lipids are difficult to detect with light microscopy. Using a new chemical labeling strategy, a Dresden-based team led by André Nadler at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and ...

All living beings, big or small, are formed through the hard work of many different cells. To keep the body ready for any ...

MP, which was found to play a critical role in upholding mitochondrial structure and regulating metabolic stress in mouse fat cells.

In Brazil, researchers at São Paulo State University (UNESP) conducted experiments on rats and identified that a protein-deficient diet during pregnancy and breastfeeding can compromise the ...

Cells are microscopic building blocks of unicellular and multicellular living organisms. Animal, plant, fungal and bacterial cells are different in terms of structure but also have many similarities.

Mitochondria constantly fuse and divide, are actively transported to specific subcellular localizations and have dynamic structures. Mitochondrial dynamics is important for the functional state of ...

Researchers have discovered a regulatory process that controls the maturation of brain cells. This regulation seems to be ...