A research team at the Institut de Neurociències of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (INc-UAB) has developed a new protein capable of improving ...

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 ...

Nanotube bridge networks grow between the most abundant photosynthetic bacteria in the oceans, suggesting that the world is ...

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

The newer variant of avian influenza that recently infected dairy cattle in Nevada has a genetic change that’s thought to ...

This influx of calcium at the contact site attracts and activates a kinase called CaMKII, a protein known to be important in ...

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

A complex molecular machine, the spliceosome, ensures that the genetic information from the genome, after being transcribed into mRNA precursors, is correctly assembled into mature mRNA. Splicing is a ...

Nerve cells have amazing strategies to save energy and still perform the most important of their tasks. Researchers found that the neuronal energy conservation program determines the location and ...

New research reveals that brain cells use a muscle-like signaling mechanism to relay information over long distances.

Filopodia help cells move but also aid cancer spread. Scientists have revealed how fascin proteins build these structures, ...