Nerve cells have amazing strategies to save energy and still perform the most important of their tasks. Researchers from the ...

The fatty membrane surrounding every living cell is a vibrant environment where countless biological processes take place.

The hypothesis puts forward the idea that stress granules disrupt the cell transport system, which then modifies gene ...

Scientists develop groundbreaking dual-action drug RI-AG03 that targets toxic tau proteins in Alzheimer's disease, showing ...

The model calculations in the present study show that proteins are therefore preferably synthesized in the branched, tapering ...

Rice lab pioneers an assembly kit for synthetic sense-and-respond circuits in human cells. Rice University bioengineers have ...

A disrupted protein degradation process in heart muscle cells can lead to a range of severe heart diseases. In the case of ...

For decades, scientists have tried to stop cancer by disabling the mutated proteins that are found in tumors. But many ...

The war against cancer may have received a shot in the arm with a new method that appears to be a surefire one offering a ...

A new study has identified an enzyme that plays an important role in breaking down unneeded or damaged proteins in the heart -- an important process for maintaining heart health.