Protein aggregates, damaged organelles, and invading bacteria are identified and removed in healthy cells. An international ...

The elimination of damaged cell components is essential for the maintenance of the body's tissues and organs. An international research team has made significant findings on mechanisms for the ...

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

A research team at The University of Osaka has found a novel pathway for depositing CENP-A into vertebrate centromeres, which ...

Researchers at Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT-Italian Institute of Technology) have developed an innovative microscopy ...

When killer T cells of our immune system divide, they normally undergo asymmetric cell division (ACD): Each daughter cell inherits different cellular components, which drive the cells toward divergent ...

Despite the immense amount of genetic material present in each cell, around three billion base pairs in humans, this material ...