Following on from a remarkable study in mice, scientists have now confirmed that silencing a certain protein in muscle tissue ...

Innovative weight-loss drugs burst onto the scene about 10 years ago, promising a healthier, slimmer world. The downside, ...

How well our brain functions depends heavily on the performance of our nerve cells. That is why they are regularly checked ...

Organelle structure is controlled by regulatory ... regulation differ depending on the organism. In eukaryotic cells, cellular functions are compartmentalized into membrane-bound organelles.

Oregon Health & Science University, in collaboration with Oregon State University, has discovered the structural organization ...

One particularly vexing challenge is seeing all the molecules in an intact tissue sample, down to the level of single cells, simultaneously ... to a point where fine details, like sub-organelle ...

A team from Peking University’s College of Future Technology, led by Professor Xi Peng, in collaboration with Professor Jin Dayong at the Eastern Institute of Technology, has achieved a major ...

However, both the structure and function of this protein family ... The membrane of cells and organelles like mitochondria are composed of a lipid bilayer, with proteins either attached to or ...

Gabe Lander and Adrian Koh talk all things cryo-EM and its pivotal role in structural biology research in this feature.

Researchers have elucidated the mode of action of a promising inhibitor of a Parkinson's-associated mitochondrial protein.

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