Our cells produce a variety of proteins, each with a specific role that, in many cases, means that they need to be in a particular part of the cell where that role is needed. One of the ways that ...

The prefrontal cortex (PFC) is important for learning and performing working memory tasks. However, its precise role for spatial and non-spatial working memory, and the role of different cell types in ...

During cell division, a subset of intestinal stem cells (ISCs) inherits old mitochondria that increase intracellular α-ketoglutarate levels. α-Ketoglutarate facilitates remodelling of DNA methylation ...

The 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded for the development of CRISPR/Cas9, a method also known as "gene scissors," which enables researchers to better understand how human cells function and ...

An often-ignored type of cell in the brain plays a dynamic and surprisingly complex role in our ability to process information, according to new research. An often-ignored type of cell in the brain ...