Over the years, cell biology has built a detailed picture of how cells compartmentalize their internal functions. Central to ...

Cells manage a wide range of functions in their tiny package — growing, moving, housekeeping, and so on — and most of those functions require energy. But how do cells get this energy in the first ...

Cells were long believed to safeguard nuclear contents, releasing them only during cell death. Extracellular DNA was thought ...

Dr. Zhao said several of RS3's proteins are involved in placing or removing phosphate groups from other proteins—a regulatory function that he and his colleagues suspect plays a part in coordinating ...

Other cells, such as glial cells, support the function of neurons. Neuroscience has often painted glial cells as the glue ...

While humans can regularly replace certain cells, like those in our blood and gut, we cannot naturally regrow most other parts of the body. For example, when the tiny sensory hair cells in our inner ...

Millions of myelin-producing cells have been mapped in the mouse brain, advancing our understanding of nervous system ...