Scientists led by Prof. Liu Jing from the Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry of the Chinese Academy of Sciences ...

Functional subpopulations of β-cells emerge to control pulsative insulin secretion in the pancreatic islets of mice through calcium oscillations.

Before arriving at Janelia three years ago, Postdoctoral Scientist Antonio Fiore was designing and building optical ...

It feels like the Splinter Cell remake has been on its way for a while now, which isn't helped by the fact it's been over three years since we heard anything official about the game. From what we ...

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 ...

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 ...

Take the electrolyte potassium, for example. It is the most abundant positively charged ion inside cells, but its concentration is 30-fold lower in the extracellular environment. "Suddenly an ...

The system they developed may facilitate the transportation of large therapeutic loads into cells. This opens up a new way for the targeted administration of medication and other therapeutic ...

Figure 1: Separation of mouse germ cells in the R6/1 transgenic line. We show here that expansion arises in the haploid stage of germ-cell development. Two features of the haploid stage shed light ...