Mitochondria are essential for generating energy that fuels cells and helps them function. Mitochondria are essential for generating energy that fuels cells and helps them function.

A complex molecular machine, the spliceosome, ensures that the genetic information from the genome, after being transcribed into mRNA precursors, is correctly assembled into mature mRNA. Splicing is a ...

New research reveals that brain cells use a muscle-like signaling mechanism to relay information over long distances.

Our biceps and our brain cells may have more in common than previously thought.New research led by the Lippincott-Schwartz ...

Filopodia help cells move but also aid cancer spread. Scientists have revealed how fascin proteins build these structures, ...

Nerve cells have amazing strategies to save energy and still perform the most important of their tasks. Researchers from the ...

A dietary supplement developed at the Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute has been found to stop the progression of heart ...

Proteins are the workhorses that keep our cells running, and there are many thousands of types of proteins in our cells, each performing a specialized function. Researchers have long known that the ...