Alzheimer's disease is a progressive and permanent loss of nerve cells in the brain. The breakdown causes memory loss, ...

Researchers at the University of California San Diego have developed a large-scale screening approach that identifies ...

How the proteins in our bodies bind together to form protein complexes plays a critical role in numerous cell functions—staving off diseases, for instance, or transporting ions across cell membranes.

Two proteins with opposing functions orchestrate the development and maintenance of healthy skin, Stanford Medicine ...

The cytoskeleton gives cells their shape and helps them move. Researchers at Helmholtz Munich and Ludwig Maximilian University now show that, in neural stem cells, proteins of the cytoskeleton are ...

Scientists at Baylor College of Medicine may have uncovered a promising new way to combat Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease ...

Mitochondria have critical cellular functions including energy mobilization, calcium regulation, metabolite production and redox homeostasis 1,2. However, mitochondrial proteins are challenged by ...

The average human cell contains roughly 10,000 different proteins. Existing as several to millions of copies in each cell, proteins mediate all manner of tasks, including chemical transformations, ...

What matters isn’t the condensate—it’s whether tubulin is present, an associate professor told Newsweek.

Messenger RNA is vital to cells, and now scientists have discovered a critical new role for this crucial molecule.. | ...

A hallmark of Parkinson's disease is the buildup of Lewy bodies—misfolded clumps of the protein known as alpha-synuclein. Long before Lewy bodies form, alpha-synuclein can interfere with neurons' ...

MIT researchers have demonstrated that cell membrane composition directly influences EGFR activity, with elevated negatively ...