All complex life on Earth, including plants and animals, are made up of eukaryotic cells, which are more sophisticated than ...

BioFlux shear flow systems provide researchers with the power to introduce physiological and pathological shear flow, along ...

Thanks to its mitochondrion, this eukaryotic ancestor had enough energy ... it was deemed energetically impossible for a prokaryotic cell to be capable of endocytosis, as the energy source of ...

Eukaryotic cells are complex biological units, each with multiple membrane-bound compartments. These cells use specialized mechanisms to export biomolecules from their synthesis site to where they ...

Now, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) Assistant Professor Michael Lukey has found a way to deprive cancer cells of both a vital nutrient and their backup supply. In lab experiments with breast ...

New study find that our natural killer cells -- from the immune system which protect against disease and infections -- instinctively recognize and attack a protein that drives cancer growth.

Bacterial cells can 'remember' brief, temporary changes to their bodies and immediate surroundings, a new study has found. And, although these changes are not encoded in the cell's genetics ...

Recently, adoptive T-cell therapy in particular has developed into an effective treatment tool. Here, certain of the body's own white blood cells, the T cells, are modified in such a way that they ...

For years, Amanda Smith and her husband were jolted awake at night by a buzz-buzz-beep — an alarm warning that her blood sugar was too high or too low. She would reach for juice boxes stored in ...