Filamentous cyanobacteria represent a distinctive group of oxygenic photoautotrophs that exhibit a remarkable form of prokaryotic multicellularity. These organisms form elongated trichomes in which ...

A team at Scripps Research says it has discovered hundreds of proteins that are constantly transported throughout the healthy brain in small membrane-enclosed sacs, revealing a new form of ...

Cell-to-cell communication is essential throughout all forms and stages of life, and many communication mechanisms are well studied. However, over the past few years, scientists have found increasing ...

The study was led by Professor Albert Lu, from the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences at the University of Barcelona and the CELLEX Biomedical Research Centre (IDIBAPS-UB), and María Yáñez-Mó, ...

The use of new diagnostic tests for the monitoring of new and existing therapies for breast cancer patients. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2013 ASCO Annual Meeting I. This abstract does ...

Water makes up around 60% of the human body. More than half of this water is inside the cells that make up organs and tissues, and much of the remaining water flows in the spaces between cells. MIT ...