Mitosis orchestrates eukaryotic cell division, maintaining genetic fidelity and playing a key role in development, tissue homeostasis, and cancer progression.

Plants droop and shed their leaves when parched, but with a splash of water, their stems regain strength and their leaves ...

ARF will trigger or halt the activity of genes that are related to growth. "At some point in evolution, plant cells must have developed a way to recognize and respond to plant hormones," noted first ...

Nerve cells have amazing strategies to save energy and still perform the most important of their tasks. Researchers from the ...

A group of scientists in China has revealed a novel mechanism whereby a short form of IL-18, generated by caspase-3 cleavage ...

Biologists have uncovered a surprising connection between the way plants grow and how they defend themselves against ...

Researchers uncover key mechanisms in gene regulation that may lead to better design of RNA-based medicines.

A new study shows how an anticancer drug triggers an "outside in" signal that gets it sucked into a cancer cell.

Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Cardiology (N.T.L., N.U.N.N., W.M.E., C.-C.H., I.M.-M., F.X., S.R.A., N.V., N.B., L.E.-F., Q.M.O., A.C.C., M.S.A., S.L ...

Bone-marrow-derived multipotent progenitor stromal cells — or mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) — are the common predecessors of cells of the mesenchymal lineage, such as bone, cartilage and fat ...

Specificity also entails recognition of and selective activity towards particular ubiquitin chain types, at least eight of which are now known to coexist in yeast and mammalian cells. DUBs might ...