The sugar glucose, which is the main source of energy in almost every living cell, has been revealed in a Stanford Medicine study to also be a master regulator of tissue differentiation - the process ...

New technology can separate the fibers in the sugar beet pulp left over after sugar production. Part of the fiber can be used ...

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

The Arkansas Integrative Metabolic Research Center will explore the potential of a novel, artificially designed, hybrid growth factor to regulate the metabolism of fat and cancer cells.

Developmental biologist Dr. Alexandra Joyner reflects on her career and talks about the new passions she looks forward to pursuing in retirement.

In a groundbreaking study on the synthesis of cellulose – a major constituent of all plant cell walls – a team of Rutgers University-New Brunswick researchers has captured images of the microscopic ...

Among other functions, the NK cells (natural killers, a type of lymphocyte forming part of the immune system) have the capacity to detect and eliminate cancer cells. But in some cases they cannot ...

It's time for researchers to reconsider the current paradigm of cancer as a genetic disease, argue authors of a new essay.

A team of researchers from the Hospital del Mar Research Institute, the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and the Pompeu Fabra University has developed a new tool that allows modifying these NK cells ...

The legendary robbers Schinderhannes and Schwarzer Jonas were executed by guillotine in Mainz in 1803. In 1805, the first ...

The researchers observed that light activated the enzyme, causing predictable cell movements. For example, specific light ...

The authors have generated important resources such as a reference dataset of early primate development by utilizing single-cell transcriptomic technology together with induced pluripotent stem cells ...