Many biological processes are regulated by electricity—from nerve impulses to heartbeats to the movement of molecules in and ...

Unlike our organs, cell organelles such as mitochondria are not fixed in place, but when, where, how, and why organelles move ...

Located at the cellular interface, membrane proteins play critical regulatory roles in the signaling between a cell and its interacting environment, making them popular and ideal drug targets.

For the first time, researchers have been able to show how a cell closes the door to free radicals—small oxygen molecules ...

In recent years, the field of immunology has increasingly focused on the role of glycolipids and sphingolipids in the differentiation and function of innate immune cells, such as macrophages, ...

Scientists have discovered that T cell receptors activate through a hidden spring-like motion that had never been seen before ...

Scientists at UT Southwestern in Dallas say they have finally nailed down the human protein that makes cells literally burst ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. The bottom of the ocean is cold, dark, and under extreme pressure. It is not a place suited to the physiology of us surface dwellers: At ...

The bottom of the ocean is cold, dark and under extreme pressure. It is not a place suited to the physiology of us surface dwellers: At the deepest point, the pressure of 36,200 feet of seawater is ...