Can eating fat be good for us? Some fatty acid molecules actually play a crucial role in maintaining our health and cellular functions. By the early twentieth century, scientists and doctors widely ...

The structural and functional characteristics of mitochondria shape their role as signaling organelles, with far-reaching ...

Molecules that help cells communicate with each other--called cytokines--might be the key to repairing diabetic nerve damage, according to a new study published in Experimental Neurology. Diabetes ...

Complex sugar-protein molecules that sense external messages to help a cell grow or respond to its environment can now be ...

Hierarchical communication between cells with distinct positional memories orchestrates the regeneration of missing limb structures in axolotls.

Researchers from the Keck School of Medicine of USC have developed a new type of chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell that elicits a more controlled immune response to cancer in mice—effectively ...

Eli Lilly and Company announced results from two preclinical studies of molecules that target genetic mutations and disable specific signalling pathways that can lead to cancer. The studies evaluated ...

During brain development, neurons extend long processes called axons. Axons link different areas of the brain and carry signals within it and to the rest of the body. Growing axons "wire up" the brain ...