When scientists finally cracked open the capsule from asteroid Bennu, they expected carbon, water-bearing minerals, and maybe ...

Every cell depends on proteins to function and stay healthy. These proteins are made inside the cell from amino acids, but ...

Researchers have developed experimental drugs that encourage the mitochondria in our cells to work a little harder and burn ...

Life may have emerged from a surprisingly simple network of chemical reactions long before cells or genes existed.

Inside your cells, mitochondria keep you alive by turning food into usable energy. Researchers from the University of Technology Sydney and Memorial University of Newfoundland are now exploring how to ...

Opioid receptors are a subset of G protein–coupled receptors (GPCRs). These membrane proteins transmit signals into the cell ...