The secretory pathway in eukaryotic cells is crucial for maintaining cellular function and physiological activities, as it ensures the accurate transport of proteins to specific subcellular locations ...

Nanoparticles are widely used in medicine to deliver drugs, genes or imaging agents to specific parts of the body. Once a ...

New research from scientists at the Karolinska Institutet in Sweden and their collaborators elsewhere describes a way of improving extracellular vesicles’ ability to transport things like therapeutic ...

Permeasis Therapeutics (“Permeasis”), a biotechnology company developing intracellular biologics enabled by its proprietary Membrane Translocation Domain (MTD) platform announced the publication of ...

Structures called desmosomes connect cells to each other and transfer mechanical stress. They are especially important in tissues under continual mechanical stress, such as heart muscle (pictured).

How large, fully folded proteins can pass through cell membranes without destroying them has long been one of the open ...

A research group led by Professor Michael Glickman, dean of Technion's Faculty of Biology, has uncovered a key mechanism in the development of Alzheimer's. The mechanism in question identifies toxic ...