Scientists at the USC Leonard Davis School of Gerontology have discovered a key connection between high levels of iron in the ...

Our cells carry out hundreds of thousands of important functions every day, all of which are carefully orchestrated at a ...

A research team led by Prof. Wan Yinhua from the Institute of Process Engineering (IPE) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences ...

One of the great biological mysteries of the human body is how hundreds of complex, origami-like proteins, many of which are ...

Inside your body, countless processes are happening every second to keep you alive. Among them is a little-known but powerful ...

During cell-to-cell spread, HIV-1 protease activity triggers CARD8 inflammasome activation and IL-1β release from macrophages, which may contribute to inflammation and chronic immune activation.

The Rita Allen Foundation Scholars program provides multi-year funding to promising early-career investigators conducting ...

Caveolae have a role in mechanosensation in specific cell types. The underlying link between these functions might be a role in sensing membrane changes, a property that is reliant on the specific ...

Hyperthermia, a cancer treatment using controlled heat to kill tumor cells, shows promise but faces limitations due to some ...

Since the time of the ancient Greek physician Hippocrates, cancer has been recognized as being sensitive to heat. Today, this principle forms the ...

Glycan-bacteria binding profiles in the vaginal microbiome provide insights into reproductive health, highlighting targets ...

Scientists discovered that axons don’t quite look like straight cables. Instead, axons often appear like pearls on a string.