An emerging area of research is the evolutionarily conserved transfer of mitochondria between cells. Yet researchers have ...

A person's lifetime risk for cancer may begin before they are even born, reports a paradigm-shifting study by Van Andel Institute scientists.

In living organisms, protein molecules with different chemical structures called proteoforms, are produced from a single gene ...

In collaboration with colleagues from international partner institutions, researchers at the University of Cologne have ...

Proteins, the pillars of cellular function, often assemble into "complexes" to fulfill their functions. A study by the ...

Scientists recreated the origins of one of life's most important partnerships, uncovering how symbiotic relationships can evolve into powerful alliances.

Aluminum stress is an important factor limiting plant growth in acidic soil, and has significant effects on the growth, development and physiological metabolism of Mentha canadensis. However, the ...

The completion of mitosis is governed by the dephosphorylation ... The two-step Cdc14 activation process helps to determine the sequence of Cdk-substrate dephosphorylation. APC activity and ...

To understand how cancerous tumour cells die after being subjected to radiotherapy, scientists from Sydney's Children's ...

Scientists at Children’s Medical Research Institute (CMRI) have solved a remarkable puzzle in cancer research: why cells die ...

Millions of people owe their lives to a treatment we’ve never completely understood; changing that could save even more.

When DNA damaged by radiation was repaired by a method called homologous recombination, they found that cancer cells died ...