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

Collagen, the body's most abundant protein, has long been viewed as a predictable structural component of tissues. However, a new study challenges that notion, revealing an unexpected confirmation in ...

Protein synthesis is vital for life, translating genetic information from DNA to functional proteins through transcription ...

Synthetic biologists from Yale were able to re-write the genetic code of an organism—a novel genomically recoded organism ...

The management of Leishmania donova ni (LD), responsible for fatal visceral leishmaniasis (VL), faces increasing challenges due to rising drug-unresponsiveness, leading to increasing treatment ...

Researchers developed a technique to gain a deeper understanding of ribosome function and their cooperative behaviors.

A new imaging technique reveals ribosomes work together when translating mRNA, preventing slowdowns in protein production. This discovery challenges prior beliefs and could revolutionize our ...

Synthesizing new proteins – the building blocks of biological life – is a scientific field of immense potential, and a newly developed AI model promises to create instructions for new proteins way ...

New research uncovers how declining protein clearance mechanisms with age lead to Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, and other ...

A new study from EMBL Barcelona researchers shows that metabolic activities selectively modulate the segmentation clock, ...

In a recent study, researchers demonstrated that Z526, a novel dithiocarbamate-like compound, mitigates cancer-associated cachexia (CAC) both in vitro and in vivo.

Northwestern Medicine scientists have uncovered new details explaining how poxviruses manipulate host cells to enhance their ...