perkinsii, an ancestral species of protist. This unicellular ... Even more surprisingly, the way these cells divide and the three-dimensional structure they adopt are strikingly reminiscent ...

While there are plenty of weird animals in nature, some of the strangest organisms can only be seen under a microscope. Here ...

Dip2 maintains the level of a specific DAG subpopulation, required for the activation of PKC-mediated cell wall integrity pathway ... using anti GFP antibody. Structure of respective DAGs is shown on ...

The interaction between growth and the active migration of cells plays a crucial role in the spatial mixing of growing cell ...

At sufficiently high concentrations, some of the compounds called per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances self-organize into two ...

Starting in the 1970s, researchers identified a beautiful system of specialised cells in the hippocampus (the brain’s memory ...

A collaborative research team from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) and the Hong Kong Polytechnic ...

Eukaryogenesis occurred suddenly, driven by the growing length of genes and the limitations on producing longer proteins. An ...

Scientists at the Medical Research Council (MRC) Mitochondrial Biology Unit, University of Cambridge, have worked out the structure of ... broken down inside our cells they produce pyruvate ...

The largest study to date of most common form of testicular cancer has uncovered a possible link between disease risk and variations in the genes controlling cell shape and movement. By investigating ...