Forget snakes and spiders—a new review details venomous plants, fungi, and even bacteria, proving that nature's deadliest ...

Next the researchers are working on soybeans and cowpeas; the latter is “a hugely important food-security crop in African ...

CAS Key Laboratory for Biomedical Effects of Nanomaterials and Nanosafety, National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, Beijing 100190, China College of Materials Science and Optoelectronic ...

This recipients’ achievements include spurring undergraduate students to pursue further study in the sciences, communicating ...

Autophagy is the process by which cells digest and renew their internal structures, recycling damaged or malfunctioning ...

Moreover, these proteins were unable to arrive at their proper destination—a cellular organelle in which they are supposed to function—and were found instead inside another organelle that handles ...

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

A new study unravels the relationship between mitofusins (mitochondrial proteins) and autophagy. Using gene editing with CRISPR-Cas9, the team has been able to study these proteins without altering ...

It also reminds us that there’s sometimes some truth to be found in our old sayings, as Lippincott-Schwartz pointed out: “Einstein said that when he uses his brain, it is like he is using a muscle, ...