In this interview, Professor James J. Collins, founder of the field of Synthetic Biology, discusses his journey to founding ...

When the Empire State Building was constructed, its 102 stories rose above midtown one piece at a time, with each individual ...

Look inside a brain cell with Huntington's disease or ALS and you are likely to find RNA clumped together. These solid-like clusters, thought to be irreversible, can act as sponges that soak up ...

Plants produce a wide diversity of compounds. Broadly, these are separated into primary metabolites, which are necessary for ...

Overview The research laboratory of Louis (Jim) J. Maher III, Ph.D., studies the nucleic acids DNA and RNA. Dr. Maher's research team works to understand how the locally stiff DNA molecule is bent and ...

Scientists have created an artificial RNA system that can copy itself using simple building blocks and temperature changes.

Lateral partitioning of lipid-modified molecules between liquid-disordered (ld) and liquid-ordered (lo) domains depends on the type of lipid modification, presence of a spacer, membrane composition, ...