People communicate with each other, sometimes face to face, sometimes with a text message or phone call. Cells also ...

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 ...

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 ...

Biophysicist Susy Kohout explores how cells respond to electrical cues, shedding light on the connection between cell ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Cancer cells are remarkably good at adapting to stress. When treatments damage them, they often find new ways to survive, fueling drug resistance and disease progression.

Researchers from the Keck School of Medicine of USC have developed a new type of chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell that elicits a more controlled immune response to cancer in mice—effectively ...