Photosynthesis is one of those things you probably learned about in school, tucked somewhere between diagrams of chloroplasts ...

Mitochondria supply the body with the energy currency adenosine triphosphate (ATP), which drives all bodily activities. For ...

Scientists discovered that axons don’t quite look like straight cables. Instead, axons often appear like pearls on a string.

Picture a living cell as if it were a city. If you were the urban planner for this (very little, very alive) city, one of the ...

Background Current treatments with tyrosine kinase inhibitors and immune checkpoint inhibitors have limited efficacy for ...

Picture a living cell as if it were a city. If you were the urban planner for this (very little, very alive) city, one of the ...

A Cambrian fossil once thought to be a mollusk ancestor is now identified as a chancelloriid relative, reshaping ideas about ...

Department of Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, United States ...

CPGs. Their model shows that cell-type-specific connectivity and a dominant inhibitory drive could underlie rhythm generation. Excitatory input could act to enhance the frequency range of these ...

Astrocytes, once thought to be the brain’s housekeepers, may actually be silent powerhouses of memory.

A new machine learning model shows that star-shaped brain cells may be responsible for the brain's memory capacity, and ...

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