Ordinary fat cells in obese animals can be induced to burn energy stores, generating substantial heat, according to a ...

Engineers at Washington University in St. Louis have developed a new class of protein-based fibers modeled on the aligned ...

Traditional chemotherapy drugs like 5-fluorouracil are poorly soluble, inefficient at reaching cancer cells, and cause severe side effects by damaging healthy tissue. In a promising advance for cancer ...

Neurons have a "hibernation mode." Scientists discover how brain cells use RNA tentacles to lock their protein factories together to survive when energy is low.

An “immune system reset” eliminated autoimmune, or Type 1, diabetes in mice in a study conducted at. Researchers say the strategy could also have potential for treating other autoimmune diseases and ...

A key question that remains in biology and biophysics is how three-dimensional tissue shapes emerge during animal development. Research teams have now found a mechanism by which tissues can be ...

Plants and algae, meanwhile, use chloroplasts, which perform photosynthesis to generate energy from sunlight to power their cells. In a new study led by the University of Tokyo, the team inserted ...

Ribosomes, the cell's protein-making factories, consume large amounts of energy as they build the proteins that keep cells ...

Advances in organ and computer models are raising the prospect that some animal experiments could be eliminated. But there ...