Heterogeneous structures, such as cellular structures (foam) 1 and networks, are highly versatile and used both in nature and industry. In cellular structures, the phase-forming cell walls are ...

Researchers develop an approach based on solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) to study the structure of an intrinsically disordered protein under near-native conditions. Traditionally, ...

Researchers examined anatomy of neurons from humans, mice and fruit flies. They discovered that the cellular structure of the brain is at a critical point, poised between two phases. New insights ...

Biochemists have uncovered the structure of cellular mechanism tied to thought, movement and other bodily functions. New atomic scale images of the structure of calcium's gatekeeper, IP3R, could go a ...

When a magnet is heated up, it reaches a critical point where it loses magnetization. Called “criticality,” this point of high complexity is reached when a physical object is transitioning smoothly ...

In a groundbreaking study published in Nature Communications, researchers from the University of Virginia School of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have discovered a previously ...

Scientists call it LUCA, the Last Universal Common Ancestor, but they don’t know much about this great-grandparent of all living things. Many believe LUCA was little more than a crude assemblage of ...

Cellular stains are organic fluorescent dyes or fluorescent conjugates designed to localize to a specific organelle or cellular structure. In some cases, the stains respond to the physiological ...