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A potential link between metabolic changes resulting from exercise and gene expression in the brain has been revealed.

The endoplasmic reticulum serves as a direct and primary source of calcium ions for the lysosome.

The transcription factor ERG recruits the PRMT5 enzyme to methylate the androgen receptor, presenting a post-translational regulatory mechanism that could be therapeutically exploited to control cell proliferation.

Proper gut health depends on the balance between two naturally occurring variants of a transcription factor in the colon.

A newly discovered feedback amplification loop between stem cells and their immediate daughter progenitor cells drives epithelial regeneration and tumor development.

Notch1 activates autophagy to regulate the survival of T-regulatory cells from mice.

A new mitochondrial protein degradation pathway selectively sorts and destroys a subset of the mitochondrial membrane proteome to protect mitochondria in times of stress.

Physiological porphyrin biosynthesis causes photosensitivity in fasted planarians, providing an experimentally tractable animal model of acute porphyrias.

In yeast, exit from mitosis is triggered by the movement of one spindle pole body out of the mother cell into the bud, the future daughter cell.