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 ...

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

"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 ...

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 ...

Many cells in our bodies divide regularly and make new cells. During that process, DNA in the cell must be accurately replicated and then packaged into the new cell. Even though there are safeguards ...

While Mars is the focus of researchers' attention, Saturn's mysterious moon, Titan, is becoming increasingly intriguing. A recent NASA study suggests that in its hydrocarbon lakes, basic cellular ...