EDMONTON – University of Alberta researchers are rewriting the textbooks with a discovery that alters science’s understanding of one of the cell’s most basic processes. The finding could shed new ...

To stain cells for examination with a light microscope. To examine a range of cells and other structures with a microscope to understand their basic structure. When viewing any slide with a microscope ...

CLOCK (circadian locomotor output cycles kaput) and BMAL1 (brain and muscle ARNT-like 1) are both transcription factors of the circadian core loop in mammals. Recently published mouse CLOCK-BMAL1 bHLH ...

Proteins are the end products of the decoding process that starts with the information in cellular DNA. As workhorses of the cell, proteins compose structural and motor elements in the cell, and they ...

Biologists used the world’s largest single-celled organism, an aquatic alga called Caulerpa taxifolia, to study the nature of structure and form in plants. It is a single cell that can grow to a ...