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Ribosomes also help detect cellular stress and can trigger protective actions when the cell encounters harmful conditions.

"We aim to identify the master regulators of cellular identity," he says.

The team pinpointed a protein that enables cancer cells to alter the shape of their mitochondria, the structures that generate cellular energy.

"Understanding how hypertension affects the brain at the cellular and molecular levels during the earliest stages of the disease may provide clues to finding ways that can potentially block neurodegeneration."

At the cellular scale, the way muscle tissue repairs itself becomes surprisingly complex.