A team led by UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers has uncovered the atomic structure of a protein complex pivotal to the function of motile cilia, the hair-like structures extending from the ...

Bacterial cell division, a process wherein a single cell divides to form two identical daughter cells, represents one of the ...

Researchers from Japan and France have successfully reconstituted the development of mouse egg cells, known as oocytes, from ...

Basic carboxypeptidases (basic CPs) cleave the C-terminal basic amino acid of peptides, and their activity is upregulated in some types of cancers. Therefore, detecting the activity of basic CPs in ...

How proteins in our cells attain their correct three-dimensional structure is crucial to their function—and to our health.

Researchers at ChristianaCare’s Helen F. Graham Cancer Center & Research Institute and the University of Delaware have uncovered what could be a biological “instruction manual” for how ...

With a new method, researchers have captured a high-resolution metabolic “map” of how cells orchestrate glucose processing, ...