Scientists are beginning to show that learning is not exclusive to neurons and synapses. At the scale of billionths of a ...

Laboratories that once focused on easing the final moments of life are now probing whether those moments are as final as ...

Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have identified a protein that causes human cell membranes to break open in a ...

Dynamin is a protein that plays a central role in endocytosis—the process where cells internalize substances by wrapping them in cell membrane vesicles. For a vesicle to detach, the neck of the ...

A new Dartmouth study opens new avenues for understanding—and potentially manipulating—how cells decide to live or die.

The tiny pantheon known as the Asgard archaea bear traits that hint at how plants, animals and fungi emerged on Earth.

We conclude that brain states are shaped by local circuit mechanisms, large-scale connectivity and neuromodulation. A unified multiscale theory of cortical dynamics is relevant not only for ...

The field of inorganic membrane materials has recently witnessed rapid progress, offering transformative opportunities to address critical challenges in ...