Epithelial cells form the body's frontline barriers, helping keep microbes, toxins and other harmful substances out. Yet ...

Twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, mitochondria in our cells churn out energy from the food we eat, which keeps our ...

Leucine, the amino acid sold in tubs and bars for building muscle, also stands guard over the machinery inside mitochondria.

Researchers at Juntendo University have discovered that the lipid mediator 12-HHT and its receptor BLT2 form an emergency ...

A new review proposes that the ratio of monounsaturated to polyunsaturated membrane phospholipids acts as a tunable rheostat ...

There's a lot we know about the human body and what it's constituent parts look like, despite that, there's still a lot we ...

Tiny relatives of our cellular ancestors reshape long protrusions within minutes and pull themselves across surfaces using ancient actin machinery.

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Ocean acidification phytoplankton research published in Nature Geoscience shows that rising CO2 forces marine phytoplankton ...

On October 5, 2026, the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was announced. The award went to "optogenetics," a technique ...