UCLA scientists have characterized the structure and function of a key survival protein in breast cancer cells that helps ...

UCLA scientists have characterized the structure and function of a key survival protein in breast cancer cells that helps ...

All cells need to sense and respond to their environment, to know when to activate genes, build proteins, and carry out their ...

The functions of biomolecules, including lipids, nucleic acids and especially proteins are determined to a great extent by their structure. This structure–function relationship is a foundation of many ...

The newly described microbe represents a world of parasitic, intercellular biodiversity only beginning to be revealed by ...

CD3 (including its subunits CD3ε, CD3δ, CD3γ, and CD3ζ) is the central component of the TCR-CD3 complex and is crucial for recognizing T cells and responding to antigens. Every subunit of CD3 has ...

The immune cell repertoire is composed of many different cell types that are orchestrated in response to infection and other pathogens that enter the body. As a result, the body can defend itself ...

A team of researchers at IOCB Prague headed by Dr. Tomáš Slanina has developed a new method for labeling molecules with ...

Researchers at LMU in collaboration with the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg have discovered how ...

The thyroid cartilage surrounds the thyroid gland in the middle of the throat. Its primary function is to protect and support the vocal cords. It is one of the laryngeal cartilages, which make up the ...

More than a billion years ago a hungry cell devoured a tiny blue-green alga. But instead of the former simply digesting the latter, the duo struck a remarkable evolutionary deal. Now scientists are ...