Cell physiology is the study of the functional properties of cells, the basic units of life, and encompasses the investigation of processes such as metabolism, signal transduction, gene expression, ...

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet have established a novel transplantation site for islets of Langerhans that enables long ...

Cell culture and fermentation are used to produce pharmaceutical products or other molecules of interest. To achieve maximum efficiency or quality assessment during the synthesis of targeted products, ...

Two American biologists have won this year's Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering a crucial way genes are regulated. Two American biologists have won this year's Nobel Prize in ...

The discovery of an unknown organelle inside our cells could open the door to new treatments for devastating inherited diseases. The organelle, a type of specialized structure, has been dubbed a ...

Three scientists — William G. Kaelin Jr. of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Peter J. Ratcliffe of the University of Oxford, and Gregg L. Semenza of Johns Hopkins University — were awarded the 2019 ...

The Department of Biological Sciences treats the life sciences in all their breadth and diversity, including the study of molecules, cells, whole organisms, ecosystems, plants, animals and ...

Rhythmic electrical activity in the retina (known as pathological oscillations) has been observed in several eye diseases, ...

UCLA researchers found that the buildup of a key structural protein inside fruit flies’ neurons can drive aging – and that disrupting its structure may reverse aging.

In natural environments, bacteria rarely live as free-swimming cells but are attached to surfaces as biofilms in medical ...

Stuart S. Martin, PhD, an internationally recognized breast cancer researcher, has been appointed Chair of the University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM) Department of Pharmacology & Physiology ...