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

Details of calcium 'safety-valve' in cells explained Date: June 6, 2014 Source: DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory Summary: The atomic level structure of a protein that regulates the level of calcium ...

Every day, your body replaces billions of cells — and yet, your tissues stay perfectly organized. How is that possible? This research is the product of more than 15 years of collaboration between ...

A ‘noisy’ chromatin structure allows cells to take on different identities, helping the immune system but possibly leading to ...

Notch signaling helps determine the fate of a number of different cell types in a variety of organisms, including humans. A new finding about the Notch signaling pathway in sensory organ precursor ...

Ask a friend what DNA is and, chances are, they have a general idea. Seventy years after scientists discovered the two-stranded helix, DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) is widely understood as the keeper of ...