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UT Southwestern Medical Center and California researchers have provided the first report that an enzyme previously known solely for its role in cell division also acts as an on-off switch in the innate immune system.

A new study offers atomic-level details of the molecular machinery that allows swimming bacteria to sense their environment and change direction when needed.

New web-based tool allows researchers to measure protein dynamics in embryogenesis.

Scientists decipher details of deadly toxin's cloaking mechanism that could guide development of new vaccines, treatments.

Spreading cancer cells arriving in a new part of the body must be able to change their new environment to continue to grow, according to a study by Cancer Research UK scientists at the Francis Crick Institute.

Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have found evidence that a mutant protein responsible for most cases of cystic fibrosis is so busy “talking” to the wrong cellular neighbors that it cannot function normally and is prematurely degraded.

Recent research has shown that the cells in our bodies teeter on the brink of death.

Commonly used diabetes drug impacts gut bacteria more than disease itself.

Cell's powerhouse plays role in mind-body interactions, with long-term health effects.

For hundreds of years, the fungus Botrytis cinerea has been key to making the world's finest dessert wines. Now UC Davis researchers working with Dolce Winery in the Napa Valley show how the fungus changes plant metabolism to produce new flavors and aromas in white-skinned grapes.