Before a chain of amino acids can become an active and useful protein, it must be processed and folded into the appropriate ...

A collaborative French-Swiss study reveals a previously unknown role for astrocytes in the brain's information processing. Published in the journal Cell, the research shows that these glial cells are ...

Type 2 diabetes medications, such as sulfonylureas, have been a mainstay of treating the disease since they came on the market in the early 1950s. However, although they are one of the most common ...

A collaborative French-Swiss study reveals a previously unknown role for astrocytes in the brain's information processing.

Before a chain of amino acids can become an active and useful protein, it must be processed and folded into the appropriate conformation. Much of this processing occurs in the endoplasmic reticulum ...

Comparing a map of the neurons in a nematode worm - the connectome - with a map of how signals travel across those neurons ...

Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have developed a new structure determination method using nuclear magnetic ...

This valuable study identifies a brown adipose tissue-specific heat shock factor 1-alcohol dehydrogenase 5 (ADH5) molecular cascade as a regulator of systemic aging, showing that ADH5 deficiency ...

See more details Toxoplasma gondii replicates through endodyogeny, an unconventional form of internal budding in which two daughter cells are assembled within a single mother cell. During this process ...