Northwestern Medicine scientists led by Joseph Bass, MD, Ph.D., the Charles F. Kettering Professor of Endocrinology and ...

Researchers uncover how distinct cell populations and fibrotic signals drive permanent scarring after rotator cuff ...

The beta cells in our pancreas act as highly sensitive sensors that constantly measure the amount of sugar in our blood. As ...

By simulating the life cycle of a minimal bacterial cell—from DNA replication to protein translation to metabolism and cell ...

Scientists at Washington University in St. Louis have engineered brain cells to hunt and destroy amyloid plaques, cutting toxic buildup by roughly half in aged mice with advanced Alzheimer’s-like ...

Large protein machines in the body carry out many of the cell's most essential tasks, from energy production to the ...

About 40% of East Asians suffer from alcohol intolerance, known as "Asian Flush Syndrome," caused by an ALDH2 genetic ...

Researchers have found hundreds of metabolic enzymes attached to human DNA inside the cell nucleus. Different tissues and cancers show unique patterns of these enzymes, forming a “nuclear metabolic ...

How does a single cell reliably build one of the most complex structures known in nature? New research suggests the answer ...

Errors in chromosome segregation cause more than 80% of early human embryos to contain cells with an incorrect number of chromosomes, a phenomenon called aneuploidy. While aneuploid cells are normally ...

Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) isn’t caused by just one faulty switch in the brain; it’s more like a tangled orchestra of genes and cells thrown off-key by trauma. With many genetic players ...

Announcing a new article publication for BIO Integration journal. Cardiac cell death and myocardial fibrosis after ischemia-reperfusion (I/R) injury are the primary causes of impaired cardiac function ...