A new study led by Marco Fumasoni, principal investigator at Fundação GIMM, shows that evolution can substantially reduce ...

Cells have surface receptors that couple to proteins and other molecules to initiate or inhibit certain behaviors.

Small plastic particles alter neuron growth, suggesting that particle size may be just as important as the amount of plastic ...

Scientists at Nagoya University in Japan studied what happens when macrophages—a type of immune cell—encounter dying cancer cells in tumors and discovered a mechanism that accelerates tumor growth.

A newly developed synthetic cell matrix could provide a surface on which to culture and differentiate billions of delicate stem cells for medical uses. For decades, scientists have been exploring ...

The alternative text for this image may have been generated using AI. In this Review, we first briefly discuss ligand specificity of IR and IGF receptor. We then focus on recent structural and ...

Fighting cancer effectively often involves stopping cancer cells from multiplying, which requires understanding proteins that the cells rely on to survive. Protein profiling plays a critical role in ...

Researchers at the Medical University of Vienna have described a mechanism in metastatic colorectal cancer that has received little attention to date: A key target of existing therapies, the so-called ...

Microtubules, part of heart muscle cells' internal "skeleton," help determine how the heart changes shape under stress, and a ...