A largely overlooked structure inside our cells may play a crucial role in how the brain forms, offering new insight into ...
RAB7A plays a central role in the final stages of autophagy, facilitating autophagosome-lysosome fusion, lysosome positioning, and cargo degradation. Its activation by guanine nucleotide exchange ...
If scientists could shrink themselves to microscopic size and take a journey through the human body—like the submarine crew in the 1966 science fiction classic "Fantastic Voyage"—one of their first ...
When the body encounters infection or cancer, cytotoxic T lymphocytes attach to the affected cell and form the immune synapse ...
For decades, depression has been explained to patients as a “chemical imbalance” in the brain, a vague phrase that never ...
When oil is dropped in water, the oil droplets stay separate. Cells can also use a system like this to separate or gather materials, encouraging various reactions and processes to occur. Scientists ...