Cedars-Sinai has created a lifelike model of the mysterious and fatal disease that could help identify a cause of the illness ...

Cancer cells can acquire energy-generating structures called mitochondria from nearby nerve cells, which seems to aid their ...

In the complex world of neuroscience, Huntington's disease remains a cruel mystery. It slowly strips away a person’s ability ...

University of Western Australia research reveals how cells convert physical exercise forces into energy production responses.

Imagine the magnificent glaciers of Greenland, the eternal snow of the Tibetan high mountains, and the permanently ice-cold ...

Scientists at the University of Western Australia and the Perron Institute for Neurological and Translational Science have ...

Most textbooks credit nearby epithelial cells with the heavy lifting of organ building, because epithelial sheets act like ...

In the frozen reaches of the planet—glaciers, mountaintops, and icy groundwater—scientists have uncovered strange ...

Rare blue proteins from cold-adapted microbes can serve as prototypes to design molecular on-off switches for cells ...

Based on several lines of interesting data, the authors conclude that FMRP, though associated with stalled ribosomes, does not determine the position on the mRNAs at which ribosomes stall. Although ...

Elizabeth Jonas first got interested in mitochondria by chance. In 1995, she was a postdoctoral researcher at Yale, working ...

A membrane transport protein called SLC13A5 has previously been linked to a severe form of epileptic encephalopathy.