The majority of children do not need a tonsillectomy.” But when done for the right reasons, tonsillectomy offers a meaningful ...

Mitochondria are cell organelles surrounded by a double membrane. In addition to numerous essential functions in the ...

As summer kicks into full gear and people are spending more time outside, there's one thing on many people's minds—ticks.

As summer kicks into full gear and people are spending more time outside, there's one thing on many people's minds - ticks.

In a twist, researchers at the University of Virginia and the National Institutes of Health uncovered a new organelle, dubbed the hemifusome. This tiny membrane-bound structure serves as a cellular ...

A protein-engineering strategy, in which a constitutively active form of an immune receptor is kept inactive by a peptide ...

A previously unknown structure discovered in our cells could pave the way toward new treatments for various genetic disorders ...

Within hours of infection, the virus targets critical components of the host cell’s machinery, including the human RNA-polymerase II enzyme, which helps it create proteins.

Scientists have now found that a group of viruses found in bats, which are close relatives of the Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV), may be only one mutation from gaining the ...

Researchers successfully decoded the genome of the 1918 influenza virus by utilizing an over 100-year-old formalin-fixed ...

A graphene sensor trained by machine learning can now taste like a human, identifying both basic and complex flavors with ...

CRISPR construct to genetically ablate the GABA transporter GAT3 in the mouse visual cortex, with effects on population-level neuronal activity. This work is important, as it sheds light on how GAT3 ...