Just as the US economy runs on the dollar, the cellular economy runs on adenosine triphosphate (ATP). The energy-carrying molecule fuels nearly all processes inside the cell, making ATP critical for ...

An international research team led by Umeå professor Magnus Wolf-Watz has discovered how the magnesium atom directs the chemistry that catalyzes the production of the energy molecule ATP in a cell.

The proton gradients that power respiration are as universal as the genetic code itself, giving an insight into the origin of life and the singular origin of complexity. Why do virtually all cells ...

What is Adenosine Triphosphate (ATP)? Adenosine triphosphate (ATP) is a nucleotide that serves as the primary energy carrier in all known living organisms. It consists of three components: the ...

Cell migration is orchestrated by the coordinated activity of motor proteins and the dynamic rearrangement of cytoskeletal networks. Actin-based motors (principally myosins) convert chemical energy ...

Cancer cells undergo physically constraining processes, such as intravasation, extravasation, and tissue infiltration, that lead to acute mechanical stress. How mechanical confinement rewires the ...

Temperature is a key physiological factor that determines the speed of immune reactions. While this may seem obvious, it has remained largely unexplored at the single-cell level-until now. Stefan ...