Insulin is one of the most potent and pleiotropic hormones in the body, regulating a myriad of physiological processes. However, perhaps none is best studied as its role in regulating glucose ...

Energy transduction underpins fundamental cellular processes, converting chemical energy stored in gradients into the mechanical and chemical work essential for life. Central to this conversion is the ...

Designated areas (white circles) were irradiated with blue light at specific frequencies (indicated in the top left of each panel) to examine chemotactic aggregation. A research team led by Dr.

Three winners of the Nobel Prize in medicine were announced in Stockholm, Sweden on Oct. 9. Prize winners Arvid Carlsson, ...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — University of Illinois biologists have discovered that a protein that lives in the cytoplasmic world between a mammalian cell's membrane and nucleus undergoes a "nuclear experience" ...