Cells manage a wide range of functions in their tiny package — growing, moving, housekeeping, and so on — and most of those functions require energy. But how do cells get this energy in the first ...

Methylation is a process that influences how much fatigue you may feel. Here is what it actually means and why it is ...

A review published in the journal Molecular Biomedicine provides a comprehensive overview of the METTL family, a group of methyltransferase-like proteins crucial for cellular function. METTL family ...

Researchers discovered that declining levels of phosphatidylcholine may be a major cause of age-related mitochondrial ...

Engineered fluorescent nanobodies that work inside living cells can label multiple proteins in different colors at once, ...

When people think about health, they often focus on specific organs like the heart or brain. But many changes related to chronic conditions or ageing begin in the smallest units of your body — your ...

A new study led by Marco Fumasoni, principal investigator at Fundação GIMM, shows that evolution can substantially reduce cell size without significantly compromising cells' ability to grow. The work, ...

Reversing cellular age isn’t science fiction, but the biology is more complicated than either the skeptics or the hype ...

A team of researchers led by Dr. Kim V. Narry, director of the Center for RNA Research at the Institute for Basic Science (IBS), has uncovered a key cellular mechanism that affects the function of ...

Inside every human cell, a tiny structure called a lysosome acts like a recycling center, breaking down toxic waste, clearing ...

Migrating newborn neurons suffer routine double-strand DNA breaks from physical stress during brain development.