Heat is both required and produced at the cellular level. The environment acts as either a heating or a cooling force on the body. The body must be able to generate heat, retain heat, and discharge ...

Researchers from the Francis Crick Institute have found that some particularly aggressive lung cancer cells can develop their own electric network, like that seen in the body's nervous system.

The human body is a key subject of research by scientists worldwide. A biomedical engineering research team led by Professor ...

Cells in the body have to move around in order to do their jobs. During development, for instance, cells are distributed to ...

Researchers have created a novel imaging-technology combination that can capture gene activity in individual bacteria in ...

Due to proteostasis stress induced by aging or disease, misfolded proteins can form toxic intermediate species of aggregates and eventually mature into less toxic inclusion bodies (IBs). Here, using a ...

The physiological power and biological value of brain-derived neurotrophic factor is so significant that it is often referred ...

A new research paper was published in Aging (Aging-US) on January 15, 2025, in Volume 17, Issue 1, titled “Association ...

A new research paper was published in Aging (Aging-US) on January 15, 2025, in Volume 17, Issue 1, titled "Association between physical activity practice and sleep quality of older people in social ...

Figure 1: Mitochondrial involvement in cell death. Mitochondria are organelles ... The ΔΨ results from the respiration-driven, electron-transport-chain-mediated pumping of protons out of the ...

Scientists have discovered that some tiny segments of RNA thought to be junk instead have a functional role in suppressing production of certain messenger RNAs and appear to help cells respond to ...

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