Cells do this by breaking proteins down and recycling them, a process summarily referred to as "protein removal." But this ongoing and vital "dance" of protein making and protein removal takes energy ...

Structures called desmosomes connect cells to each other and transfer mechanical stress. They are especially important in tissues under continual mechanical stress, such as heart muscle (pictured).

How would you summarize your study for a lay audience? Our study introduces a new tool called FUSE (Functional Substitution Estimation) that helps scientists better understand how changes in genes ...

Illustration showing the process of a release factor (RF) detecting a stop codon and releasing the newly made peptide chain (right) through a hydrolysis reaction. It’s known as biology’s central dogma ...

Without the protein galectin-3 (left), placental cells remain separate, each with their own nucleus (blue) surrounded by a distinct cell boundary (pink). With galectin-3 (right), cells fuse together ...