Chaperones also assist in the refolding of proteins in cells. Folded proteins are actually fragile structures, which can easily denature, or unfold. Although many thousands of bonds hold proteins ...

A breakthrough in imaging technology promises to transform our understanding of the inner workings of living cells, and ...

Purdue University scientists have discovered a key mechanism that regulates how plants develop chloroplasts, essential ...

It's no coincidence that our bodies feel a little creakier as we age. The trillions of cells that make up our skeleton age ...

To pinpoint this new immunization strategy, scientists inhibited human cells from producing proteasomes in one group while ...

Around the same time, researchers James Watson and Francis Crick were pursuing a definitive model for the stable structure of DNA inside cell nuclei. Watson and Crick ultimately used Franklin's ...

A look at the cells of different organisms and a comparison of the structures found in plant and animal cells. All animal cells are surrounded by a membrane which contains the cytoplasm.

Northwestern University researchers have identified structural features in engineered cell receptors that correlate with ...

Fusing dyes to antibodies or inserting genes coding for fluorescent proteins into the DNA of living cells can help scientists pick out the location of organelles, cytoskeletal elements, and other ...

A look at the cells of different organisms and a comparison of the structures found in plant and animal cells. All animal cells are surrounded by a membrane which contains the cytoplasm.