Eukaryogenesis occurred suddenly, driven by the growing length of genes and the limitations on producing longer proteins. An international team of four senior scientists from Mainz, Valencia, Madrid, ...

At MIT, one genome researcher is testing a different approach. Bin Zhang, associate professor of chemistry and the leader of ...

Mor than 800 million people worldwide are living with diabetes, according to World Health Organization (WHO) estimates, with numbers steadily increasing.

Inside every human cell, 2 meters of DNA is crammed into a nucleus that is only one-hundredth of a millimeter in diameter.To ...

Dynamic remodeling of the endomembrane system is a core biological process essential for maintaining cellular ...

Viruses are known to use the genetic machinery of the human cells they invade to make copies of themselves. As part of the ...

While neurons are a more commonly studied brain cell, Kruyer has focused on another ... within an area of the brain called the nucleus accumbens (NAc) that is active during drug relapse. The model was ...

A collaborative team from the University of Macau and Nanjing University found, using clinical databases and samples, that the loss of a protein named MFG-E8 in nucleus pulposus (NP) tissue is a ...

As the world's population ages, intervertebral disk degeneration (IDD) has become a major medical issue, causing chronic ...

While neurons are a more commonly studied brain cell, Kruyer has focused on another ... within an area of the brain called the nucleus accumbens (NAc) that is active during drug relapse. The model was ...

Researchers have shown that activation of the protein YAP, which helps tumours grow, differs between two- and three-dimensional culture models, pointing to more predictive systems for testing cancer ...

A protein was created where TDP-43 was fused to the SUMO2 protein and these fusion proteins were expressed in cells with or ...