People communicate with each other, sometimes face to face, sometimes with a text message or phone call. Cells also ...
Biophysicist Susy Kohout explores how cells respond to electrical cues, shedding light on the connection between cell ...
Phosphoinositides are a family of membrane lipids distinguished by phosphate groups at specific positions on the inositol ring, acting as spatial and temporal organisers of cell activity. Through ...
SMART, a new software package, can make studying signaling processes significantly easier. Results could accelerate research in fields across the life sciences, such as systems biology, pharmacology ...
Calcineurin is a ubiquitous serine/threonine phosphatase that decodes calcium signals to regulate an array of cellular functions. Its activation requires calcium binding to calmodulin and the ...
In a recently published review, a research team led by MedUni Vienna has highlighted a promising new approach to drug discovery. The focus is on the targeted modulation of certain intracellular ...
Microtubules, part of heart muscle cells' internal "skeleton," help determine how the heart changes shape under stress, and a ...
We owe a lot to tissue resident memory T cells (T RM). These specialized immune cells are among the body's first responders to disease. Rather than coursing through the bloodstream-as many T cells ...
A team led by Stanford biologist Bo Wang and lead author Chew Chai has identified a previously unknown type of immune cell in ...