In a new study, University of California, Irvine chemical and biomolecular engineering researchers report the creation of ...

I am a neurologist who specializes in sleep medicine. And though "beauty sleep" may sound like a fairy tale, a growing body ...

The enteric nervous system (ENS), the largest division of autonomic nervous system, is a tantalizing frontier in neuroscience. With the advent of single-cell transcriptomics, the ENS has been ...

Researchers discovered that epithelial cells use electricity to expel weak, energy-poor neighbors and maintain tissue health.

When Brent Chapman was 13, he took ibuprofen – something he had done several times before – during a Christmas basketball ...

Diabetes mellitus is a systemic disease with profound and often underappreciated impacts on cardiac structure and function. In particular, the interplay ...

Scientists often call it an antenna. This tiny structure, sticking out from the surface of most human cells, is known as the ...

Throughout our lifetime, each beat of the heart requires the coordinated action of multiple cardiac cell types. Understanding cardiac cell biology, its intricate microenvironments, and the mechanisms ...

This month's cover highlights the article A novel bacterial effector protein mediates ER-LD membrane contacts to regulate host lipid droplets by Stacey D. Gilk, Rajendra Angara and Arif Sadi. The ...