Zinc is an essential trace element that controls myriad biological processes. The delicate balance of its concentration in ...

Cysteine-rich secretory proteins (CRISPs) constitute a family of secreted proteins predominantly produced in the male reproductive tract. These proteins have been implicated in a range of processes ...

Osaka, Japan – Our cells carry out hundreds of thousands of important functions every day, all of which are carefully orchestrated at a microscopic scale. However, the precise mechanisms that ...

Porosome Therapeutics Inc. has announced the development of novel first-in-class porosome-targeting small molecules and blood-brain barrier-traversing peptide drugs developed using the company’s ...

A multi-institutional team led by the Chinese Academy of Sciences has constructed a proteomic atlas of human aging across 13 organs, revealing tissue-specific aging clocks, transcriptome-proteome ...

How does the ER prevent misfolded proteins? Researchers identify the SLC33A1 transporter as a critical glutathione regulator ...

Crypt-base-columnar cells are continuously dividing intestinal stem cells that generate IECs, which are composed by distinct specialised cell types that play different functions: Enterocytes (in the ...

While companies developing drugs to treat Alzheimer's disease have spent decades and many billions of dollars targeting amyloid beta due to its role in clogging patients' brains with harmful deposits, ...

Every cell in the human body runs a protein-folding factory inside a compartment called the endoplasmic reticulum, or ER.