Using a series of more than 1,000 X-ray snapshots of the shapeshifting of enzymes in action, researchers at Stanford ...

Just as the human body serves as a habitat for bacteria and other microbes, diverse, tiny organisms known as protists host their own microbiomes.

For example, mycoplasmas do not have a cell wall ... 13 According to this theory, an ancestral eukaryotic cell engulfed a prokaryotic organism capable of energy production. Over time, the two ...

Neurons are cells in the body that are responsible for transmitting ... Sensory neurons help you to explore and interpret the world safely. Pain is an example of an important sensory neuron. When you ...

To fill this knowledge gap, Ikeda and colleagues obtained tumour-infiltrating T cells and cancer cells from human tumours that were surgically removed and sequenced the mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA ...

Eating foods high in key nutrients, including iron, folic acid, and vitamin B12, and limiting alcohol may help increase your red blood cell count. Red blood cells are the most common cells in ...

For example, cells that fire for Harry Potter might also fire for his wizarding school pals Ron Weasley or Hermione Granger. Maybe they’d even fire for Gandalf, the wizard from The Lord of the Rings. ...

Or these blobs might be summoned when a cell starts synthesizing the constituent RNA. That seems to be what happens, for example, when our own cells make a noncoding RNA called NEAT1, the scaffold ...