Among the many marvels of life is the cell's ability to divide and thus enable organisms to grow and renew themselves. For ...

For successful cell division, chromosomal DNA needs to be packed into compact rod-shaped structures. Defects in this process can lead to cell death or diseases like cancer. A new study has shown how ...

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 ...

The cells in human bodies are subject to both chemical and mechanical forces. But until recently, scientists have not ...

Six years before the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, an Ebola outbreak in West Africa had people fearing the possibility of a global outbreak. This was the first time many had ever heard of the virus, ...

Who were our earliest ancestors? The answer could lie in a special group of single-celled organisms with a cytoskeleton similar to that of complex organisms, such as animals and plants.

One of these proteins, protein VII, is crucial to virus entry into the host cells. Without it, virus becomes trapped in their membrane cloaks and cannot establish infection. Protein VII regulates ...

The Community Health Council of Rutherford County will offer a free skin screening event from 9 a.m. to noon on Saturday, April 5. The screening will take place in the ...

Huazhong University of Science and Technology, School of Optical and Electronic Information, National Engineering Research Center for Next Generation Internet Access System (NGIA), Wuhan 430074, Hubei ...