A flurry of recent papers report structural results on proteins that are essential for membrane fusion during exocytosis, providing a starting point from which a mechanistic understanding of ...

Image Credit: Love Employee/Shutterstock.com Many drug targets are located inside cells, requiring drug carrier nanoparticles ...

Many cellular functions take place in organelles, and their contents often must be shuttled to one or another location here in the cell. Such cargo is transported by a vesicular transport system. The ...

Magnetic confinement fusion, the most advanced approach to achieving fusion, traps plasma—an ionized gas heated to millions ...

Japan’s JT-60SA fusion reactor project announced first plasma in October of this year to denote the successful upgrades to what is now the world’s largest operational, superconducting tokamak ...