Measuring the density of a cell can reveal a great deal about the cell's state. As cells proliferate, differentiate, or undergo cell death, they may gain or lose water and other molecules, which is ...

Blocking Mitch, a protein that regulates energy control, prevents fat from accumulating in human cells. About a decade ago, a ...

A team led by researchers at Baylor College of Medicine has identified flavonoids, natural compounds found in plants, that are toxic to bladder cancer cells cultured in the lab.

Bone is not the inert structure we often imagine. It's alive, adapting daily to load-bearing and impact. But with over 200 ...

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center investigators report that T cell interferon-γ (IFNγ) orchestrates a ...

Cell membrane chromatography (CMC) technology was used by researchers in screening efficacy and antibacterial ability of ...

My search for answers to these stupendously ambitious questions led me, it now seems inexorably, to mitochondria. This idea ...

In biology classes from high school through university, I learned that mitochondria are little objects that reside within ...

A team led by researchers at Baylor College of Medicine has identified flavonoids, natural compounds found in plants, that are toxic to bladder ...

An inmate at the Botetourt-Craig Regional Jail was discovered hanging from a vent in his cell Tuesday in what was the second death in the same day at the facility. William C. Cash, 39, was found ...

Researchers have developed a new stem cell model of the mature human amniotic sac, which replicates development of the tissues supporting the embryo from two to four weeks after fertilization. This is ...