In a growing global trend, bacteria are evolving new ways to maneuver around medical treatments for a variety of infections.

A University of Iowa-led study has revealed the unexpected structure adopted by the DNA repair protein RAD52 as it binds and ...

An international team led by Rutgers University-New Brunswick researchers has merged two lab-synthesized materials into a ...

Imaging wall-less plant cells every six minutes for 24 hours revealed how the cells build their protective barriers.

A new study published in Nature offers the most detailed map to date of how individual cell types in the brain change with age. Scientists analyzed over 1.2 million brain cells from young and aged ...

Extracellular osmolarity affects osteoblast migration; hypotonic conditions enhance it by raising intracellular pressure and activating TRPV4, which regulates cell structure via Rho/ROCK.

In this interview Prof. Dr. Kristina Kusche-Vihrog speaks about the nanomechanics of living cells and their implications for ...

The team recorded 24 hours of the cellular construction process, revealing surprising new details about how plant cell walls ...

Biological cells often possess thin, hair-like protrusions on their surface known as cilia, which serve various functions ranging from movement to sensing environmental signals. Researchers from ...

She uses the technique of RNA origami, which is based on the idea that genetic information—the blueprint for the cell structure, for example—is translated using self-folding RNA alone. First, a DNA ...

Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Department of Ocean and Mechanical Engineering, Florida Atlantic University, 777 Glades Rd, Boca Raton, Florida 33431, United States ...

Polysaccharides serve as stores of energy, as in glycogen (branched polysaccharide of glucose), and as a structural component of bacterial cell walls, as in cellulose (linear polysaccharide of ...