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

New research challenges the view that proteins are the only key to evolution, highlighting the importance of lipids.

The outer membrane is permeable to ... account for changes in cell size when the cytoplasmic volume stays constant. Some vacuoles have specialized functions, and plant cells can have more than ...

After more than five decades of mystery, scientists have finally unveiled the detailed structure and function of a ...

The protein component of HAMLET is α-lactalbumin, which in its native state acts as a substrate specifier in the lactose synthase complex, thereby defining a function essential for the survival ...

Cell crowding causes high-grade breast cancer cells to become more invasive by activating a molecular switch that causes the cells to shrink and spread.

The trillions of cells that make up our skeleton age too, and some change in ways that weaken the very structure of our ... stiffening and altered plasma membrane viscoelasticity undermine their ...

The researchers identified the structure of this machine, the mitochondrial pyruvate carrier (MPC), and 50 years since its discovery, have shown how it operates like the lock on a canal to transport ...

Scientists apply principles of math and physics to unravel the mystery of how the endoplasmic reticulum, an organelle vital ...