Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have characterized how cellular senescence—a biological process in ...

These include stress granules and proteasome storage granules (PSGs). In the past, these membraneless organelles were only visible as “droplets” using a fluorescence microscope. Now, researchers from ...

Cells organize their molecules into distinct functional areas. While textbooks usually refer to membrane-bound organelles ...

Hormone levels fluctuate like the tides, ebbing and flowing according to carefully orchestrated cycles. These hormones not only influence the body, but can cross into the brain and shape the behavior ...

Metabolism, far from being just a housekeeping function, underlies all changes in cell size and function ...

Findings from the Living Brain Project reveal how senescence processes involved in early brain development may also shape brain aging ...

The human genome has to be carefully organized so it will fit inside of the nuclei of cells, while also remaining accessible ...

The cochlea is the spiral-shaped structure within the inner ear responsible for our sense of hearing. To fully understand ...