A research team led by Prof. GUO Yusong, Associate Professor of the Division of Life Science at The Hong Kong University of ...

A team has clarified how in plants the boric acid channels, the conduits for the necessary element boron, are transported to the plasma membrane. Botanists have come to understand the channels and ...

Study finds ultrathin tubes connecting brain cells that transport Alzheimer's proteins. The network changes months before ...

What if you found out that pieces of your front door were occasionally flying off the door frame to carry out chores around the house? That's the kind of surprise scientists at the Salk Institute ...

Researchers have identified a previously unknown mechanism by which the kidney precisely controls calcium excretion. The ...

No one has yet created a fully functioning artificial cell. But a research team at Aarhus University has taken a step in that direction: ...

Every cell depends on proteins to function and stay healthy. These proteins are made inside the cell from amino acids, but ...

Many biological processes are regulated by electricity—from nerve impulses to heartbeats to the movement of molecules in and ...

New technique to image single lipids: Lipids are notoriously difficult to detect with light microscopy. Using a new chemical labeling strategy, the Dresden team has overcome this limitation, enabling ...