A collaborative research team from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) and the Hong Kong Polytechnic ...

Parkinson's disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative disorder in which the α-synuclein protein abnormally aggregates within brain ...

Starting in the 1970s, researchers identified a beautiful system of specialised cells in the hippocampus (the brain’s memory ...

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

Senescent skin cells, often referred to as zombie cells because they have outlived their usefulness without ever quite dying, ...

Structural studies of membrane proteins historically have relied almost exclusively on first removing membrane proteins from the membrane with dispersive agents like detergents. But dispersive agents ...

We found that cells have an elegant system that uses structure and disorder together to control cell migration. With that understanding, we can now rationally introduce small changes in a chemokine's ...

Scientists at the Medical Research Council (MRC) Mitochondrial Biology Unit, University of Cambridge, have worked out the structure of ... broken down inside our cells they produce pyruvate ...

A stunning new image from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is allowing astronomers to examine the complex and turbulent final stages of a dying star's life.

The 3D brain map includes more than 200,000 cells, 523 million synapses and over two miles of axons, representing the most ...

Listen to Story They worked out the cerebral architecture in a tissue sample The tissue sample was the size of a grain of sand It has over 200,000 cells including roughly 84,000 nerve cells ...

Researchers have created the largest and most detailed wiring diagram of a mammalian brain to date, by mapping cells in a ...