One of the biggest quests in biology is understanding how every cell in an animal's body carries an identical genome yet ...

Unlike our organs, cell organelles such as mitochondria are not fixed in place, but when, where, how, and why organelles move ...

Researchers at the Max Delbrück Center have found that a cellular housekeeping mechanism called autophagy plays a major role ...

Regulatory T (Treg) cells, identified over two decades ago, are pivotal in maintaining immune tolerance and preventing autoimmunity. Extensive research has ...

Many biological processes are regulated by electricity—from nerve impulses to heartbeats to the movement of molecules in and ...

Despite the similarities, Langmuir emphasised that this pump was fundamentally different from Gaede’s; the cold walls of the ...