When a cell receives a message from outside, it generates a molecule called cyclic AMP (cAMP) to relay this message. To ...

Microtubules perform an active role in communication within the cell by transmitting received signals to the cell's ...

A large, multi-institution study led by a Brown University physician-scientist could have important implications for the ...

Researchers at LMU have uncovered how ribosomes, the cell’s protein builders, also act as early warning sensors when ...

Interrupting one function of a protein that plays a key role in cell signaling could enable the development of new cancer ...

For the first time, researchers identified the function of the CASKIN2 protein, which plays a key role in precise signal ...

P-cadherin is a protein commonly found on malignant cancer cells and has been used as a target for antibody-based cancer treatments. UC Davis biomedical engineers have discovered that when an antibody ...

Researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine say they unexpectedly found new information about a protein's special role in getting brain cells to communicate at the right time and place in experiments with ...

The most diverse functions of a cell in the human body – from cell division and differentiation to motility and programmed cell death – are controlled by signaling proteins within the cell. This ...

Cells are not immortal, and that is a good thing. After a certain number of divisions, many human cells stop multiplying for ...