a protein that spans the cell membrane and matches up axons with dendrites to form synapses in the developing brain.

In the complex world of neuroscience, Huntington's disease remains a cruel mystery. It slowly strips away a person’s ability ...

Historical Perspective Published: May 1999 A unifying concept: the history of cell theory Paolo Mazzarello Nature Cell Biology 1, E13–E15 (1999) Cite this article ...

Researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) have solved a 60-year-old mystery in bacterial cell envelope ...

Hemifusomes are fused vesicles, or sacs of fluid, that were previously unknown to exist inside cells. They were discovered ...

A newly found organelle, the hemifusome, helps manage cellular recycling. It may play a role in inherited diseases and open ...

Like all complex organisms, every human originates from a single cell that multiplies through countless cell divisions.

Rats exhibit significant recovery of locomotor function following incomplete spinal cord injuries, albeit with altered gait expression and reduced speed and stepping frequency. These changes likely ...

Glycolytic waves drive and fuel cancer cell migration. The image, captured with a high-powered microscope over 9-minute intervals, is color-coded from early to late time points showing wave activity ...

Synaptic vesicle exocytosis is the biological process by which a synaptic vesicle fuses with the plasma membrane of the pre-synaptic axon terminal and releases its contents into the synaptic cleft ...

Cell-based therapy is a promising clinic strategy to address many unmet medical needs. However, engineering cells faces some inevitable challenges, such as limited sources of cells, cell epigenetic ...