When two cells "talk" to each other, they often do so through tiny channels called electrical synapses. Unlike chemical synapses, these so-called gap junctions enable the direct exchange of ...

In recent years, organoids have revolutionized tissue culture and the pursuit of more effective tissue replacement therapies and tissue modeling research purposes. In vitro organoid formation was ...

The molecular building blocks that make up the cells of humans, animals and plants so sophisticated appear to be older than scientists previously ...

More than 200 metabolic enzymes, many of which are normally tasked with producing energy in the mitochondria, are also found sitting directly on top of human DNA, according to a study published in ...

An adult human body is thought to consist of more than 37trn cells, of more than 5,000 distinct types. Surprisingly little is known about some of these fundamental biological building blocks. Through ...