When our body fights an infection, the immune system must quickly activate defenses and trigger a beneficial inflammatory ...

An investigation by researchers from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine in the US has filled in a missing link between the toxic build-up of proteins in the neurodegenerative condition ...

This video has no sound. This video has no sound. Powerhouses of the cell. This video of a human bone-cancer cell shows its three nuclei (blue —probably the result of failed cell divisions), actin ...

The structural and functional characteristics of mitochondria shape their role as signaling organelles, with far-reaching ...

After three years of study, the researchers found that alpha-synuclein, a protein closely linked to Parkinson’s disease, ...

Study findings map out a new way in which antiviral signals engage with cellular metabolism to balance defense and repair.

A Dartmouth study published in Nature Communications reveals that immune cells in the brain use a surprising two-step process ...

Elizabeth Jonas first got interested in mitochondria by chance. In 1995, she was a postdoctoral researcher at Yale, working at the Marine Biological Lab in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, where she was ...

People need to sleep, and sleep deprivation can cause many changes in the brain. But we have a poor understanding of why sleep is so crucial. New research has examined a fruit fly model to assess how ...

A team led by Prof. Richard GU Hongri, Assistant Professor in the Division of Integrative Systems and Design of the Academy of Interdisciplinary Studies at The Hong Kong University of Science and ...

Breakthrough method boosts stem cells’ ability to share mitochondria, offering hope for treating aging, heart disease and neurodegenerative disorders by restoring cellular energy. Biomedical ...