As far as research subjects go, it's not always easy to find common ground with a single-celled bacterium. Yet the more Paul ...

Myofibrillar myopathy type 6 (MFM6) is a rare genetic muscle disorder that leads to severe muscle weakness and a drastically ...

Cells constantly probe their environments, searching for physical cues that guide their behavior. And yet a cell's response ...

B cells are white blood cells that form a core part of the body's adaptive immune system, enabling it to recognize specific ...

Before seedlings can photosynthesize, they depend on fatty acids—and on peroxisomes to process them. Researchers discovered ...

This valuable study addressed a key question in epilepsy research: whether the recordings of very fast oscillations in the brain (>250Hz, fast ripples) reflect underlying pathology or might be a ...

Researchers at LMU have developed a human cell model that replicates key mechanisms of neurodegenerative diseases - with ...