It is a well-known fact that Alzheimer's disease is a neurological condition that is characterized by the loss of neurons and ...

Bronwyn Martin brings the analytical skills she learned in the scientific field to provide advice to ‘the millionaires next door.’ ...

Protein accumulations do important work in the human body, but something can go wrong and proliferate in those aggregates, ...

DNA repair proteins act like the body's editors, constantly finding and reversing damage to our genetic code. Researchers have long struggled to understand how cancer cells hijack one of these ...

Researchers at the University of Cologne have identified a specific form of the tau protein that is responsible for mediating the toxicity of harmful protein clumps in human neurons and thus represent ...

The buildup of knot-like RNA structures in brain cells may be the key to understanding how uncontrolled protein aggregation drives Alzheimer’s disease.

In biology, seeing can lead to understanding, and researchers in Professor Edward Boyden's lab at the McGovern Institute for ...

Scientists have made enormous advances in understanding the structures of proteins over the past several decades. Imaging ...

Immune cells that eat bacteria in the body don't stash them in specialized compartments as once thought, but turn them into ...