PHILADELPHIA, PA – Democratic State legislator Arvind Venkat has effectively secured a clear runway to reelection after a court decision eliminated the only candidate who had stepped forward to ...

The microscopic origin of line tension, used in the equilibrium description of liquid drops on flat surfaces, is not well understood. Simulations of water nanodroplets show that structural transitions ...

Long before overt type 1 diabetes, the pancreas is already changing. By profiling more than 10,000 islets and 16 million cells from donors spanning preclinical and clinical stages, Steenbuck, Damond ...

In this issue, Jiang et al. introduce a proteomic method called LoopID and show that JMJD2 demethylases have a non-catalytic role in promoting enhancer–promoter looping in mouse embryonic stem cells.

iOS devices use a high-efficiency camera capture format for image and video content. If you have ever tried transferring pictures and video files from an iPhone or iPad to a Windows PC, you will see a ...

Pulmonary fibrosis is an incurable chronic, progressive disease characterized by the emergence of fibrosis-specific cells, including a subset of fibroblasts. Proof-of-concept experiments in mice now ...

The finding that spermine molecules in cells bind to iron to prevent it unleashing ferroptosis, a type of cell death, opens up strategies for treating tissue damage and cancer.

PARP inhibitors kill cancer cells by trapping poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase 1 (PARP1) on DNA. A study now shows that cancer cells use a specialized form of autophagy to extract and degrade trapped PARP1 ...