FORT COLLINS, COLORADO - On the surfaces of our trillions of cells is a complex crowd of molecules moving around, talking to each other, occasionally segregating themselves, and triggering basic ...

"What our work shows is how a complex in the center of the cell, the ER-Golgi interaction region, controls plasma membrane cholesterol, which is essential for many cellular functions, if not essential ...

All cells need to sense and respond to their environment, to know when to activate genes, build proteins, and carry out their ...

Proteins are often called the building blocks of cells, but even those building blocks need to be built. One of the most important steps in the ...

It may sound like the start of a Frankenstein story, but scientists from New York University (NYU) and the University of Chicago have developed artificial cells made of non-biological matter that ...

Gene regulation in our cells – the decision when which proteins are produced for the various processes of the cell – is strictly regulated. It has long been assumed that this regulation deteriorates ...

When injured, cells have well-regulated responses to promote healing. These include a long-studied self-destruction process that cleans up dead and damaged cells as well as a more recently identified ...