One of the most well-studied cellular responses is how they react during times of stress, such as when the temperature gets ...

Stress and broken sleep do not just leave people groggy, they quietly chip away at the very immune cells that keep infections and cancers in check. A growing body of research now shows that chronic ...

The endoplasmic reticulum (ER) regulates protein folding and maintains proteostasis in cells- a process essential to maintaining cellular health. However, researchers at UAB have found that chronic ...

Proteotoxic stress over time can cause irreversible cardiac abnormalities. Proteotoxicity, the damage caused by faulty proteins, contributes to a severe form of heart disease. Rajasekaran ...

Researchers investigating ways to reduce exhaustion in cancer-fighting T-cells found that the Golgi apparatus can be used as a simple marker -- more Golgi means a more robust cell. The Golgi apparatus ...

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