A new study from Karolinska Institutet shows that an enzyme in the liver may partly explain sex differences in the body's ...

Researchers at the University of Ottawa and the Institute of Hydrobiology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have discovered a new role for reproductive hormone secretoneurin (SN) and, for the first ...

Mitochondria are often described as the cell’s power plants, because they convert food - glucose and fat - into energy that the cell can use. To help them achieve this, mitochondria carry their own ...

The development of an embryo is one of the most fundamental processes in biology. Early in this process, it is determined ...

Sugar-based amphiphilic molecules, which contain a hydrophilic sugar headgroup and a hydrophobic segment such as an alkyl chain, can assemble in water depending on their concentration, forming ...

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The physical differences between men and women are all too obvious, but the biological divide goes right down to the cellular level in the brain, according to a new study published in the journal ...

Working with fragile cell systems, including stem cells and organoids, is very labour intensive. It requires careful handling and constant monitoring, and is often hampered by issues around ...

Peptides are amino acid polymers. They are generally much smaller than proteins and don’t have sufficient activity on their own – they generally represent a small portion of a full protein. They may ...

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