FORT COLLINS, COLORADO - On the surfaces of our trillions of cells is a complex crowd of molecules moving around, talking to each other, occasionally segregating themselves, and triggering basic ...

"What our work shows is how a complex in the center of the cell, the ER-Golgi interaction region, controls plasma membrane cholesterol, which is essential for many cellular functions, if not essential ...

When injured, cells have well-regulated responses to promote healing. These include a long-studied self-destruction process that cleans up dead and damaged cells as well as a more recently identified ...

Many cells in our bodies divide regularly and make new cells. During that process, DNA in the cell must be accurately replicated and then packaged into the new cell. Even though there are safeguards ...

Gene regulation in our cells – the decision when which proteins are produced for the various processes of the cell – is strictly regulated. It has long been assumed that this regulation deteriorates ...