Research led by the Max Planck Institute for Biology of Aging in Cologne reports that misincorporation of ribonucleotides ...

Cell signalling pathways are central to maintaining cellular homeostasis and regulating essential functions such as proliferation, apoptosis, and repair. In both cancer and neurodegenerative diseases, ...

Erythropoietin (EPO) is primarily known to many as a hormone for blood formation. However, it has been known for some years ...

Brain cells grow faster in children with some forms of autism due to distinct changes in core cell signaling patterns, according to research from the laboratory of Anthony Wynshaw-Boris, MD, PhD, ...

Autophagy is essentially the 'rubbish collection' of our cells. If there are problems in this process, which is so important for our health, diseases such as Parkinson's can result. In their latest ...

Professor Alexander Hoffmann and Genhong Cheng from University of California, Los Angeles, jointly with Professor David ...

The emergence of drug resistance remains one of the greatest challenges in effective cancer therapy. Despite advances in ...

A new study in fruit flies describes how an animal's gut reacts differently to beneficial microbes versus harmful pathogens.

In the lab, it's easier to grow simple balls of cells than complex asymmetrical structures with two distinct ends—like the one million filtering units—nephrons—that make up a human kidney. But new ...