Physiology
2021 Medicine Nobel Prize Winner Explains the Importance of Sensing Touch
Ardem Patapoutian shared the physiology or medicine prize for work on mechanisms crucial to everything from bladder control to knowing where our limbs are
"Cells"
Microbiology
Watch Countless Small Worlds Pulse: From Liquid Crystals to Sea Cucumbers
Nikon’s Small World in Motion video competition is filled with moving delights.
Fitness
Beyond Resveratrol: The Anti-Aging NAD Fad
Whenever I see my 10-year-old daughter brimming over with so much energy that she jumps up in the middle of supper to run around the table, I think to myself, “those young mitochondria.” Mitochondria are our cells’ energy dynamos...
Health
How Overeating May Contribute to a Metabolic "Traffic Jam"
In what has been dubbed "The Great Crawl of China", in August 2010 commuters in Beijing accumulated along a 74.5-mile-long stretch of road for a preposterous 11 days straight.
The Hallmarks of Cancer 9: Reprogramming Energy Metabolism
The Hallmarks of Cancer are ten underlying principles shared by all cancers. You can read the first eight Hallmarks of Cancer articles here.
The Sciences
“Smuggler” Protein Finding Could Be Used to Disrupt Bacterial Cell Walls
Stopping bacteria from maintaining their cell walls could lead to new ways to treat infections
The Hallmarks of Cancer: 7 – Genome Instability and Mutation
All cancers share ten underlying principles, also known as the Hallmarks of Cancer. You can read about the first six here. The seventh is defined as genome instability and mutation.
How Your Morning Commute Resembles a Fungus
In many fungi, the DNA storage compartments called nuclei are not prisoners of the cells they reside in, the way they are in animals and plants.
