Metabolism guides the activation states of regulatory T cells, the immune cells that prevent inappropriate activation of the ...

An RNAi based genetic screen and subsequent analyses reveal how dyneins and small GTPases coordinate autophagosome positioning at the ncMTOC in fat cells, advancing understanding of autophagic vesicle ...

Liver cells are indispensable for research—for drug testing, to better understand diseases such as hepatitis, fatty liver, cirrhosis, or liver cancer and for development of future cell therapies.

The first animals must also have invented ways to produce the many different kinds of cells we have today; muscle cells, ...

A Czech scientist has contributed to understanding the function of the thymus—the training center of the immune system. T ...

Ribosomes are the cell's protein factories, which read the genetic code and assemble the proteins that every organism needs ...

DnaK/DnaJ or Trigger factor and find that chaperone dependence during primary biogenesis in vivo does not track with ...

BEIJING -- A team of Chinese scientists crafted a super intravital microscope that is capable of seeing clearly the entire three-dimensional (3D) interactions of a large-scale cell's network at the ...