A team of researchers from the Keck School of Medicine of USC has unlocked the details of a cellular pathway that triggers ...

As many as 40% of Americans are obese, putting them at an increased risk for high blood pressure, diabetes, stroke, heart disease and certain cancers, according to the CDC.

These proteins bind to certain compounds on the membranes of neurons ... they found that parts of the adipose tissue innervated by these afferents had larger cells. These parts also more expressed ...

Pathogen-fighting immune cells called tissue-resident memory CD8 T cells (TRM cells) go through a surprising transformation -- and relocation -- as they fight infections in the small intestine.

State Key Laboratory of Electroanalytical Chemistry, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, Jilin 130022, P. R. China ...

A recently published paper in Science China Life Sciences reports an interdisciplinary study utilizing single-cell sequencing data analysis to identify GPCRs involved in the regulation of adipogenesis ...

Ganjiang Innovation Academy, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Ganzhou 341000, China CAS Key Laboratory of Green Process and Engineering, State Key Laboratory of Multiphase Complex Systems, Beijing Key ...

really important to maintain any structure which has a membrane," Singh said. Take the electrolyte potassium, for example. It is the most abundant positively charged ion inside cells, but its ...

As per a study published on PubMed, the way our body stores fat depends on where adipose cells are located. Men tend to accumulate more visceral fat than women because they often eat higher ...

Using SCP-Nano, the researchers demonstrated that DNA origami structures can be preferentially targeted to the immune cells, while AAV variants target distinct brain regions and adipose tissue.

Scientists at the University of Stuttgart have succeeded in controlling the structure and function of biological membranes with the help of "DNA origami". The system they developed may facilitate the ...