Cell walls are a crucial structure of plant life, protecting cells from damage, giving plants shape, and containing ...

Ordinary human cells, not just neurons, respond more strongly to memory signals when they arrive in spaced bursts rather than ...

A new study published in Nature Communications reveals that a brain chemical called acetylcholine can directly trigger the ...

Cells constantly probe their environments, searching for physical cues that guide their behavior. And yet a cell's response ...

Researchers from Queen Mary University of London have uncovered a previously unknown mechanism by which HIV-1 can infect ...

New findings reveal that certain areas of the brain influence how neurons transmit signals and control their range.

In mouse brain cells, and in follow-up work involving worms and human cortical neurons, the team found that many axons ...

P-cadherin is a protein commonly found on malignant cancer cells and has been used as a target for antibody-based cancer treatments. UC Davis biomedical engineers have discovered that when an antibody ...

A newly discovered pair of stem cell lineages drives the formation of both tooth roots and the bone that anchors them. Understanding how these cells switch roles could pave the way for regenerating ...

Researchers combined electronic sensors with human islet cells to create living ‘cyborg’ organoids transmitting troves of ...