Ilia Malinin is the only person in figure skating history to successfully land the quad axel in international competition. Here's why it's so hard.

Two molecular control factors play a decisive role in what is known as splicing, the cutting and assembly of mature messenger ...

The NASA rover "Curiosity" discovered what scientists say is the largest ever seen organic molecules on Mars, raising ...

Scientists at deCODE genetics, a subsidiary of Amgen, reveal today in Nature Genetics associations between bipolar disorder and rare loss-of-function variants in two genes.

Scientists at deCODE genetics/Amgen have identified associations between bipolar disorder and rare loss-of-function variants ...

Ubiquitin marks proteins for degradation, whereby ubiquitin molecules can be combined in different types and numbers forming ...

Researchers at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry (MPIB) have developed the new UbiREAD technology to decode the various combinations of ubiquitin molecules – the ubiquitin code – which ...

The precise regulation of the RIG-I-like receptors (RLRs)-mediated type I interferon (IFN-I) activation is crucial in antiviral immunity and maintaining host immune homeostasis in the meantime. Here, ...

WEHI researchers have solved a decades-long mystery by determining the structure of human PINK1, a key protein linked to ...

Melbourne-based researchers at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute (WEHI) at the Parkinson's Disease Research Centre have ...

Recent work in The EMBO Journal describes a new hybrid post-translational modification of proteins, composed of a poly-ubiquitin chain that is attached to a target protein via a mono-ADP-ribose (MAR) ...