Using a new method to study how carbohydrates modify proteins, scientists have discovered that gut bacteria can alter molecular signatures in the brain.

AIST researchers, in collaboration with JAMSTEC, Hokkaido University and Tohoku University, have succeeded in cultivating an ...

Nerve cells have amazing strategies to save energy ... A new study published in Biochemistry sheds light on how bacteria regulate their genes, challenging long-held assumptions about protein ...

Synthetic cells that look just like natural cells but are chemically reversed could outcompete other living organisms − with ...

such as bacteria, viruses, archaea, fungi and protozoa. This discipline includes fundamental research on the biochemistry, physiology, cell biology, ecology, evolution and clinical aspects of ...

In biology textbooks, the endoplasmic reticulum is often portrayed as a distinct, compact organelle near the nucleus, and is commonly known to be responsible for protein trafficking and secretion. In ...

The endoplasmic reticulum (ER) is a crucial organelle present in all eukaryotic cells, including human cells. The ER plays a ...

Feb. 10, 2025 — Evolution is traditionally associated with a process of increasing complexity and gaining new genes. However, the explosion of the genomic era shows that gene loss and ...

as their immune systems would face great difficulty in detecting or killing the mirror cells. As a result, mirror bacteria could hypothetically replicate to extremely high levels in the human body, ...

Information about the Ph.D. and M.S. programs in Microbiology, including procedures for application, faculty research areas, and requirements for admission and graduation. M.S. and Ph.D. in Cell, ...

Our body is said to host ten times more bacteria than cells. Really ... The ratio is still taught in biology classes and popular science activities. Nearly forty years later, in 2014 ...