Supporting cell communication processes is critical for maintaining human performance and long-term health.”— Hunter ...

Chloride ions, best known for helping cells maintain fluid balance and electrical stability, may also play a more direct role ...

Using an informatics tool that identifies “hotspots” of post-translational modification (PTM) activity on proteins, researchers have found a previously-unknown mechanism that puts the brakes on an ...

Signaling is fundamental to how cells sense and respond to their environment—but in immune cells, those signals must be ...

This summer, over 50 researchers in the NSF EMBRIO Institute convened to share their newest findings on cellular signaling and organization that drives wound repair, cellular defense, and organismal ...

Is parallel visual processing a myth? A new study reveals that bipolar cells in the retina use electrical synapses to ...

Every organism must be able to respond to stimuli in its environment, but when animal sizes strain the limits of neuron ...

Scientists led by Sergey Troyanovsky, Ph.D., professor of Dermatology and of Cell and Developmental Biology, have uncovered new intracellular mechanisms promoting cell-cell adhesion, a process ...

A new metabolic mechanism describes how tumors disable “gatekeeper” cells to prevent immune response to cancer.