Plant phototropism—directional growth in response to light—serves as a key adaptive mechanism, optimizing photosynthesis and ...

Mitochondria are cell organelles surrounded by a double membrane. In addition to numerous essential functions in the ...

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In a bid to better understand how cancer cells power their explosive growth and spread, scientists at Johns Hopkins Medicine ...

Cold weather triggers brown fat to burn energy, thanks to a newly discovered protein switch. This natural calorie-burning ...

Elizabeth Jonas first got interested in mitochondria by chance. In 1995, she was a postdoctoral researcher at Yale, working ...

A collaborative study from the University of Cologne has uncovered how a key mitochondrial protein, AIFM1 (Apoptosis-Inducing ...

This study reveals how SV40 helicase unwinds DNA, highlighting ATP hydrolysis's role in translocation and offering insights ...

A combination of polymer physics theories consistently rationalizes comprehensive experimental effects of salt, ATP, phosphorylation, and sequence charge and arginine/lysine patterns on the reentrant ...

Our research into the cellular and molecular mechanisms of drug absorption and disposition feed into such models, and our data has been implemented in the major software platforms for PBPK modeling.

Cells possess a remarkable ability to organize their interiors using minuscule protein machines known as molecular motors, which generate directed motion. Most molecular motors rely on a common form ...

A structure-based model of the chromosomal cohesin complex, accompanied by molecular-mechanistic simulations, explains cohesin's key role in topologically entrapping DNA, as well as its ability to ...