Gene editing is already being used to treat a handful of rare genetic diseases; however, most therapies involve breaking or ...

Developing effective treatments and understanding how the mechanism of the immune system have always been challenging for ...

Accumulation of fat molecules is detrimental to the cell. Researchers from the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National ...

In human cells, only a small proportion of the information written in genes is used to produce proteins. How does the cell select this information? A large molecular machine called the spliceosome ...

Functional subpopulations of β-cells emerge to control pulsative insulin secretion in the pancreatic islets of mice through calcium oscillations.

JMU scientists studied insulin-producing cells in fruit flies, finding that secretion is influenced by gut hormones, ...