This influx of calcium at the contact site attracts and activates a kinase called CaMKII, a protein known to be important in ...

Discover the importance of antibiotics, bacterial cell walls, and resistance mechanisms in fighting bacterial infections effectively.

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A new study shows how an anticancer drug triggers an "outside in" signal that gets it sucked into a cancer cell. The work, ...

New research reveals that brain cells use a muscle-like signaling mechanism to relay information over long distances.

Every cell in the body normally has its fixed place as part of a tissue structure. Except for a few cell types, such as blood ...

In this manuscript the authors established a novel three-dimensional culture system for stratified epithelia that allows epithelial cells to undergo epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT) and ...

New research details the subcellular structures in neurons that enable signals to be transmitted from where they are received at specific sites on dendrites to the decision-making cell body located ...

A new study shows how an anticancer drug triggers an "outside in" signal that gets it sucked into a cancer cell.

A new study shows how an anticancer drug triggers an "outside in" signal that gets it sucked into a cancer cell.