The Hemifusome: A Cellular Recycling Center The hemifusome is a tiny, membrane-bound organelle that functions as a recycling center inside cells. Its primary role seems to be in organizing and ...

A comprehensive map of the human cell By mapping the subcellular architecture of tumor cells, researchers can better understand how mutations cause cancer Date: April 9, 2025 Source: University of ...

Scientists have now created an encyclopedia of gene function for all known human genes that code for protein. This data uses the most current and reliable data, and it has also been released on a ...

After centuries of mapping the human body in ever-finer detail, scientists are still making discoveries. Here we are, in 2025, and a previously unknown cellular structure that could be vital to ...

Miniature models of the brain have revealed a "previously unappreciated" role of microglia, a type of cell found within the ...

While scientists had previously studied brain cells’ structure and function separately, “understanding how neuronal function emerges at the circuit level has been challenging, since we need to ...

Much the way the caps on the ends of a shoelace prevent it from fraying, telomeres - regions of repetitive DNA sequences and a protein structure - protect the tips of chromosomes from damage.

One of those genes encodes the enzyme DHDDS, part of the pathway that glycosylates proteins in higher cells. Retinitis pigmentosa from DHDDS mutations is called RP59. This is a recessive genetic ...