A collaborative French-Swiss study reveals a previously unknown role for astrocytes in the brain's information processing.

Swiss team has uncovered a new role for astrocytes in brain computation. Using advanced microscopy, researchers found that ...

Before a chain of amino acids can become an active and useful protein, it must be processed and folded into the appropriate ...

Type 2 diabetes medications, such as sulfonylureas, have been a mainstay of treating the disease since they came on the ...

The unfolded protein response (UPR) is a protective pathway that helps cells manage stress during protein production. Cancer cells exploit this ...

Comparing a map of the neurons in a nematode worm - the connectome - with a map of how signals travel across those neurons ...