Zulu spent 14 months in detention, part of which was spent in an isolation cell lying all day on a mattress on the floor ... Mbokodo after four months training in the Soviet Union--and Gordin, his ...

Jeremy Gordin proposes a mutually beneficial solution to the Malema ... "[These police officers]," said their lawyer, "have gone through extreme trauma ... being locked up in holding cells with ...

Taste, pain, or response to stress—nearly all essential functions in the human body are regulated by molecular switches ...

Sterols are among the most abundant lipids in eukaryotic cells, yet are synthesized through notoriously long, complex metabolic pathways. Researchers have used a novel approach to show how they ...

After decades of hype and setbacks, scientists have made impressive progress into tricking stem cells into repairing organs.

Scientists at McMaster University have uncovered new insights into the complex interactions between different kinds of brain ...

Eukaryogenesis occurred suddenly, driven by the growing length of genes and the limitations on producing longer proteins. An ...

A series of preclinical studies show that a new compound, SHP1705, targets circadian clock proteins hijacked by glioblastoma ...

Led by molecular biologist Vivian Meyer and colleagues, the team exposed two types of human skin cells — keratinocytes and fibroblasts — to electromagnetic fields at 27 and 40.5 GHz. These frequencies ...

The mitochondrion plays critical roles in cellular function, making it a prime organelle to target for fundamental studies, ...

This explainer outlines how neurons and glial cells coordinate electrical and chemical signals to form complex brain networks ...

Researchers have shown in mice that brain cells known as astrocytes are required for a signaling chemical called norepinephrine to modify brain activity, changing the textbook understanding that ...