Mitochondria Are More Than Powerhouses—They’re the Motherboard of the Cell ...

A unique feature of HR is that it repairs the damage to the DNA in a highly accurate way. In eukaryotic cells (those with a ...

X-ray fluorescence analysis has played a significant role in material elemental identification and charge state measurements during exploration of ...

Our cells rely on microscopic highways and specialized protein vehicles to move everything—from positioning organelles to carting protein instructions to disposing of cellular garbage. These highways ...

Researchers have captured a time-resolved video of a protein interaction essential to healthy brain development.

Changes to key brain regions in analysis of ASD and non-ASD patients points to discovery of biomarker for autism spectrum disorderAutism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a lifelong neurodevelopmental ...

An international research team led by the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI has measured the radius of the nucleus of muonic helium ...

When all you’ve got is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. And when you’ve got a scanning electron microscope, everything must look like a sample that would be really, really interesting ...

Electron microscopy uses a beam of electrons to illuminate a sample and achieve much higher spatial resolution than light microscopy. Transmission electron microscopy generates an image of the ...

Since the atomic nucleus was first proposed in 1911, physicists simply assumed it was round. ​ But are the nuclei of atoms ...