The endoplasmic reticulum is usually the biggest organelle in eukaryotic cells; it has various portions that serve different purposes; and it is the site of protein production, as well other other ...

When injured, cells have well-regulated responses to promote healing. These include a long-studied self-destruction process that cleans up dead and damaged cells as well as a more recently identified ...

A recent perspective published in eGastroenterology, Professor Wen-Xing Ding and colleagues from The University of Kansas ...

As people age, most maintain normal blood sugar even as insulin resistance tends to rise. New research suggests that pancreatic beta cells help meet this demand through gradual epigenetic changes in ...

Old cells are able to revert to a younger state for a better injury response after radically jettisoning ‘waste’ material, rather than managing it through controlled degradation. Cells eject ‘waste’ ...