In many cells of the human body, hair-like protrusions known as cilia act as antennae, allowing cells to receive signals from ...

Signals from the plant cell wall help to orchestrate growth, reproduction and immune function. Can harnessing this molecular ...

Ribosomes are the cell's protein factories, which read the genetic code and assemble the proteins that every organism needs ...

Ribosomes are the cell's protein factories, which read the genetic code and assemble the proteins that every organism needs to live. But as far as how ribosomes themselves were formed, tantalizingly ...

As time marches on, aging is inevitable. Naturally, a person can accumulate wrinkles, laugh lines, stress, and cellular damage. Of these, damaged cells can take multiple paths: they can undergo ...

They have precise rules based on their physical, chemical, and biological properties that encode cell behavior,” Szleifer said. The study suggests that the geometric code may have been a key ...