The human small intestine absorbs nutrients while protecting us from potentially harmful microbes. One of the cell types that ...

How can a virus with only five proteins dominate a human cell that contains thousands? This question has long puzzled ...

Tiny structures inside your cells keep your body alive by turning food into fuel. These structures, called mitochondria, ...

Biologists have long suspected that aging is not just a slow, inevitable fraying of our cells but a process governed by ...

Biomedical researchers at Texas A&M University may have discovered a way to stop or even reverse the decline of cellular energy production—a finding that could have revolutionary effects across ...

Scientists have attempted to map the human cell since the first microscope was invented more than 400 years ago. But many components of the cell still remain uncharted. "We know each of the proteins ...

What keeps our cells the right size? Scientists have long puzzled over this fundamental question, since cells that are too ...

Scientists discovered that certain gene changes allow cells to function even when frataxin, the protein lost in Friedreich’s ...

Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have identified a protein that causes human cell membranes to break open in a ...