It is also a function of cellular arrangement. Both cell junctions and cytoskeletal networks help stabilize tissue architecture. For instance, the cells that make up human epithelial tissue attach ...

The book ends with an epilogue called "Time and change," which does not present a comforting account for those of us over 50 of the way accommodation, resolution and other functions change over a ...

A team led by Professor Kazuhiro Maeshima of the National Institute of Genetics (ROIS) and SOKENDAI in Japan has developed a ...

The cells in human bodies are subject to both chemical and mechanical forces. But until recently, scientists have not ...

Neuroscience examines the structure and function of the human brain and nervous system ... Humans have an estimated hundred billion neurons, or brain cells, each with about a thousand connections ...

The sequence of amino acids in the chain determines how the chain will fold up to make the protein, so different proteins have different three-dimensional shapes. The three-dimensional shape of a ...