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Electricity has always been central to how life works, from the firing of neurons to the beating of the heart, but new ...

The discovery that tissues use electricity to expel unhealthy cells is part of a surge of renewed interest in the currents ...

An international group of researchers led by Pompeu Fabra University has discovered the nanomachine that controls ...

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Protein aggregates, damaged organelles, and invading bacteria are identified and removed in healthy cells. An international ...

Spatial proteomics enables scientists to investigate protein organization at the subcellular, cellular, and tissue levels, including in pathological contexts. Using technologies that help researchers ...

Microscopy continues to transform the life sciences. Here are five recent breakthroughs made possible by the technique.

This is a top-down cross-section of one of the 3D hollow spheres (lumenoids) that our cells can create. The different colors are for different proteins, which allows you to see some striking ...

Encouraged by these results, Dudin, Dey, Guichard, and Hamel launched a close collaboration. Three years later, their work has produced near-encyclopedic insight into hundreds of protist species and ...