Complex sugar-protein molecules that sense external messages to help a cell grow or respond to its environment can now be ...

Researchers have identified a key molecular interaction that accelerates Parkinson’s disease by damaging the brain’s energy ...

Individual mammalian cells contain billions of protein molecules, which must be synthesized, deployed, and removed with ...

The average human cell contains roughly 10,000 different proteins. Existing as several to millions of copies in each cell, proteins mediate all manner of tasks, including chemical transformations, ...

Polyamines are small molecules naturally present in all cells and are critical in guiding cellular decisions, whereas an ...

Many people still don’t understand how protein works, why it matters or the best ways to get enough of it in their diet. Here ...

The functioning of neurons, cells that transmit information in the nervous system, heavily relies on the production of ...

Scientists have long known that cellular membranes vary in thickness, but measuring those differences inside actual cells has ...

Scientists have long known that inherited neurodegenerative disorders, including Alzheimer's, Parkinson's or motor neuron ...

RNA in cells performs an astounding number of functions. Messenger RNA carries the sequences of active genes to cellular machinery that turns it into proteins. And transfer RNA molecules are an ...

Cells that are about to die send a signal to an executioner protein, but sometimes, those cells can fight back and regenerate ...