In an effort to reveal the inner workings of a protein that serves as a cell's damage detection system, scientists at Johns ...

Around 80% of proteins involved in diseases like cancer and neurodegenerative illnesses do not have a stable structure. These ...

Researchers have recreated a miniature human bone marrow system that mirrors the real structure found inside our bones. The ...

There are many kinds of T cells, and they play different parts in defending the body. Some T cells kill infected cells, ...

Solar panels made from silicon already adorn rooftops and vast fields around the world—but they are reaching their ...

Nature offers a clue. Across every scale, stability comes not from chance but from structure. Cells rely on four molecular ...

Neural tissue engineering aims to mimic the brain's complex environment, the extracellular matrix, which supports nerve cell ...

It’s been hard for the neuroscience community to take a step back from this old school interpretation that the brain is this ...

How do pigeons know where they're going while flying across vast distances? Researchers point to their inner ear system.

The newly described microbe represents a world of parasitic, intercellular biodiversity only beginning to be revealed by ...

Silicon solar cells were supposed to be running out of headroom, yet a new device has pushed their performance to 27.81% ...

New computer modeling could help scientists better understand how the retina regenerates, opening the door to new treatments for vision loss, according to a study from the University of Surrey.