Peer ReviewDownload a summary of the editorial decision process including editorial decision letters, reviewer comments and author responses to feedback. Epithelial wound healing in Drosophila ...

Isolation of measles virus from the brain of a patient with subacute sclerosing panencephalitis was accomplished by in vitro propagation of the patient's brain cells and cocultivation of the brain ...

This study provides important insights into how IL-1 cytokines protect cells against SARS-CoV-2 infection. By inducing a non-canonical RhoA/ROCK signaling pathway, IL-1beta inhibits the ability of ...

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM : Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) is a common virus that primarily impacts the respiratory system. It is especially concerning for infants and young children, although it can ...

Innate immune responses triggered by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection play pivotal roles in the pathogenesis of COVID-19, while host factors including ...

Jianhua Sui, Wenhui Li, Akikazu Murakami, Azaibi Tamin, Leslie J. Matthews, Swee Kee Wong, Michael J. Moore, Aimee St. Clair Tallarico, Mobolaji Olurinde, Hyeryun ...

Researchers have discovered a new phenomenon where sperm from mice can induce non-reproductive cells from hamsters to fuse and form a syncytia – a cell with multiple nuclei. The study, published today ...

In animals and plants, multinucleate cells (syncytia and coenocytes) are essential in ontogeny and reproduction. Fuso-morphogenesis is the formation of multinucleated syncytia by cell-cell fusion, but ...

A team of researchers has uncovered a previously unknown compensatory mechanism found in liver disease. If Kupffer cells (KCs), a specific kind of immune cells found in the liver, become impaired by ...

TOPSHOT - A Registered Nurse tends to a Covid-19 patient in the Intensive Care Unit at Providence St. Mary Medical Center in Apple Valley, California on January 11, 2021. - As Covid-19 tears through ...

Compare this with one prevailing theory of consciousness: Neuronal groups are linked by dendritic–dendritic gap junctions, forming transient syncytia (“dendritic webs”) in input/integration layers ...