Health & Physiology

How obesity can improve the efficacy of cancer treatment: role of the sex hormone estrogens.

Rejuvenating the Aged Intestinal System

Tobacco smoking and other exposures shut off cancer-fighting genes

DNA mutations causing cancer occur in cells through aging, environmental exposures, and cellular factors. By analysing thousands of cancer genomes, we found...

A hidden clock that times cytoplasmic divisions

Our recent study reveals that in fruit fly embryos, the cell's cytoplasm can divide on its own, without waiting for the nucleus or relying on the usual cell...

When two kinases go for a dance

Phosphorylation is a fundamental mechanism in eukaryotic cells that allows signals to propagate. Kinases orchestrate this process by phosphorylating proteins...