Scientists at Feinberg are reshaping scientific understanding of the cell's tiniest components—structures once thought to be ...

Alzheimer’s disease has proved to be a tricky target, and researchers and drug developers have been pursuing effective treatments for decades. The brains of people who die with Alzheimer’s show a ...

Receptor proteins, expressed on the cell surface or within the cell, bind to different signaling molecules, known as ligands, ...

The 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded for the development of CRISPR/Cas9, a method also known as "gene scissors," ...

Receptor proteins, expressed on the cell surface or within the cell, bind to different signaling molecules, known as ligands, ...

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The enteric nervous system (ENS), the largest division of autonomic nervous system, is a tantalizing frontier in neuroscience. With the advent of single-cell transcriptomics, the ENS has been ...

The protein homeostasis (proteostasis) network (Balch et al, 2008), consisting of a collection of molecular chaperones, ...

Scientists characterized the largest sample of a neural circuit to date to improve artificial intelligence models and better ...

Cell division is one of the most thoroughly studied processes in biology, yet many of its details remain mysterious. A century-old puzzle surrounding the “crown” of cell division – the kinetochore ...

The story of the princess and the pea evokes an image of a highly sensitive royal young woman so refined, she can sense a pea under a stack of mattresses.

The story of the princess and the pea evokes an image of a highly sensitive young royal woman so refined, she can sense a pea under a stack of mattresses. When it comes to human biology, it also takes ...