Johns Hopkins researchers identify energy-generating waves on cancer cell membranes, revealing potential targets for slowing tumor growth and spread.

RNA is thought to be a stay-at-home kind of molecule, often comfortably confined within the cell’s interior. So, when RNA molecules were detected on the surface of several cell types, researchers ...

A 2021 Cell article discovered that some small RNAs in cancer cell lines and embryonic stem cells have N-glycosylation. Many N-glycosylated small RNAs, termed glycoRNAs, are found on cell membranes.

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. The bottom of the ocean is cold, dark, and under extreme pressure. It is not a place suited to the physiology of us surface dwellers ...