Symmetry is a fundamental characteristic of most multi-cell animals. However, the cell division of embryonic cells is ...

Healthy cells are constantly breaking down proteins and building up new ones with the help of enzymes aptly named unfoldases, ...

For a long time, scientists depended on luck to find new proteins. In 1840, for example, Friedrich Ludwig Hünefeld, a German ...

This makes the tardigrade proteins potential candidates in technologies centered on slowing the aging process and in long-term storage of human cells. The new study, published in the journal Protein ...