Researchers at the Center for Life Sciences at the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI have for the first time identified structural ...

Plants droop and shed their leaves when parched, but with a splash of water, their stems regain strength and their leaves ...

Breakthrough study in Nature Materials reveals DNA nanorafts reshape synthetic cells for controlled membrane dynamics and ...

Nanotube bridge networks grow between the most abundant photosynthetic bacteria in the oceans, suggesting that the world is ...

The new research reveals a novel mechanism for signal transmission in brain cells and helps answer an open question in neuroscience about how intracellular signals travel over long distances in ...

Plants droop and shed their leaves when parched, but with a splash of water, their stems regain strength and their leaves unfurl. This dramatic ...

The fatty membrane surrounding every living cell is a vibrant environment where countless biological processes take place.

A new study shows how an anticancer drug triggers an “outside in” signal that gets it sucked into a cancer cell. The work, published Jan. 29 in Nature Communications, reveals ...

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 ...

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 ...

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