Scientists Discover Tiny Protein Has Big Impact in Times of Stress
Ribosomes churn out proteins that carry out all of life’s functions, but when missing a key and previously overlooked factor, they can break down in…
Ribosomes churn out proteins that carry out all of life’s functions, but when missing a key and previously overlooked factor, they can break down in…
Uncovered details of a molecular pathway in cancer cells could lead to improved treatment. Targeting a pathway that controls the movement of mitochondria, the powerhouses…
If certain signaling cascades are misregulated, diseases like cancer, obesity, and diabetes may occur. A mechanism recently discovered by scientists at the Leibniz- Forschungsinstitut für…
A team of researchers at Yale is expanding our understanding of how bacteria continue to evolve and adapt at the molecular level. By making a…
Researchers at Oregon State University and Oregon Health & Science University are working on a treatment that holds great promise for improving the lives of…
A Delaware team including Erin Crowgey, Ph.D., associate director of Bioinformatics with Nemours Biomedical Research, has published a study in the peer-reviewed journal BMC Bioinformatics,…
Brown tissue whitening causes cell death, inflammation There’s more than one type of fat cell. Besides the white fat that stores triglycerides in lipid droplets…
Diversity in bacteria — and in all forms of life — ensures the ability to survive random changes in the environment. But when a bacterial…
The accumulation of cholesterol plaques in artery walls can lead to atherosclerosis, or the hardening of arteries that contributes to heart attacks and strokes. In…
So much for survival of the fittest – diversity is the key: a team of researchers from the Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries…
During embryonic development genetic cascades control gene activity and cell differentiation. In a new publication of the journal PNAS, the team of Ulrich Technau of…
Scientists have created a new type of genetic replication system which demonstrates how the first life on Earth – in the form of RNA –…
An employee of Belozersky Research Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology (RI PCB), MSU together with a Russian colleague analyzed the ways of increasing the survivability of…
New research has shown how an unusual gene is needed for brain development in young mice. Since the human genome was first sequenced in 2001,…
Researchers from the University of Illinois at Chicago and Nosopharm, a biotechnology company based in Lyon, France, are part of an international team reporting on…
Like an island nation, the nucleus of a cell has a transportation problem. Evolution has enclosed it with a double membrane, the nuclear envelope, which…
When a Service member suffers a traumatic injury or acute infection, the time from event to first medical treatment is usually the single most significant…
Researchers have developed a same-day, noninvasive positron emission tomography (PET)-based imaging approach to assess PD-L1 positive tumors, and the study is presented in the featured…