To stay healthy, our cells rely on a self-cleaning mechanism that removes defective or unnecessary components. This process, ...

BK and CaV1.3 channels interact early during biogenesis, assembling intracellularly before membrane localization, indicating coordinated processes for functional coupling.

Kanazawa University, in collaboration with Osaka University and the National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology, ...

A shift in the balance between two lipids – cholesterol and sphingomyelin – makes hybrid epithelial-mesenchymal cancer cells less responsive to certain chemotherapy drugs.

Biologists have long treated the cell as a chemical factory, but a new wave of research is forcing a rethink of that familiar ...

Cells live in a world of chaos, constantly buffeted by random molecular jolts that can derail even the most carefully tuned genetic programs. A new wave of mathematical work is turning that chaos into ...

‘Tiny biological batteries’ can change the cell membrane’s electrical properties – a discovery that has big implications for health, as many essential cellular processes hinge upon precise electrical ...

Think back to that basic biology class you took in high school. You probably learned about organelles, those little “organs” inside cells that form compartments with individual functions. For example, ...