When human cells lack oxygen, they must react. Without oxygen, the metabolism can hardly generate energy, and many vital ...

When a cell spreads out or changes its shape to adapt to its environment, the transport rate of proteins between the nucleus and cytoplasm changes. Previously, scientists assumed this change was ...

Transport of molecules within a cell and out of the cell requires a complex endomembrane system. Endocytosis occurs when the cell membrane engulfs particles (dark blue) outside the cell, draws the ...

Cells must transport nutrients and messenger cargos through its membrane and transport them within the cell at the correct time and place. This procedure is complex and is regulated with the help of ...

Researchers have identified a previously unknown “hook-like” domain in the tail of the kinesin-2 motor protein that explains how these molecular machines select the right cargo inside cells.

A soft microrobot uses light driven motion, temperature sensing, and localized heating to control single cells inside 3D ...

Researchers at New York University and the University of Chicago have developed artificial, fully synthetic cell-like structures that autonomously ingest, process, and push out material, recreating an ...

Three American cell biologists are recognized for discoveries that explain how diseases such as diabetes, immune disorders, and Alzheimer’s work. “Oh my God, oh my God.” That’s how a world renowned ...

New research shows that, in a native cell environment, which is crowded with a high concentration of macromolecules, the crowding significantly impacts the speed of groups of motor proteins, but not ...

Calcium is a very special nutrient. In the cells of most living beings calcium ions function as so-called second messengers to transmit important signals. The same applies equally to animal, plant and ...

B. Eftekharzadeh et al., “Tau protein disrupts nucleocytoplasmic transport in Alzheimer’s disease,” Neuron, 99:925–40.e7, 2018. Dotted along the edges of neuronal cells’ nuclei are protein complexes ...