Improvements in public health have allowed humankind to survive to older ages than ever before, but, for many people, these ...
In A Nutshell As cells age, they deliberately shrink a major internal structure called the endoplasmic reticulum. This downsizing happens early in adulthood and shifts cells away from protein ...
Over the past two decades, researchers have learned that DNA inside the cell nucleus naturally folds into a network of ...
A Scripps team has adapted advanced imaging and computation to measure cell membrane thickness inside intact animal and yeast ...
Human cells are extremely small and tightly packed – at about 20 micrometers across, ...
The body’s cells respond to stress—toxins, mutations, starvation or other assaults—by pausing normal functions to focus on conserving energy, repairing damaged components and boosting defenses. If the ...
New study shows how bacteria adapted a virus-derived injection system to recognize and attach to many different types of ...
Researchers describe a new way by which cells adapt to the aging process: by actively remodeling the endoplasmic reticulum, ...