The fatty membrane surrounding every living cell is a vibrant environment where countless biological processes take place.

In human cells, only a small proportion of the information written in genes is used to produce proteins. How does the cell select this information? A large molecular machine called the spliceosome ...

Rice lab pioneers an assembly kit for synthetic sense-and-respond circuits in human cells. Rice University bioengineers have ...

Imagine being at a big marquee event in an arena, like the Super Bowl, with the roar of the crowd, the smell of hot dogs, and ...

Proteins' amino-acid sequences appear to guide their access to blob-like aggregates involved in many cell processes ...

Synthetic biologists from Yale were able to re-write the genetic code of an organism - a novel genomically recoded organism (GRO) with one stop codon - using a cellular platform that they developed ...

The newer variant of avian influenza that recently infected dairy cattle in Nevada has a genetic change that’s thought to ...

UMD researchers have discovered key mechanisms in gene regulation that could improve the design of RNA-based medicines.

UMD researchers uncover key mechanisms in gene regulation that may lead to better design of RNA-based medicines.

An enzyme called Ubiquitin-specific peptidase 5 is a key factor in protein quality in heart muscle cells ...

UCSF scientists discover how cancer cells hijack the protein factory of the cell to churn out MYC protein, the driver of 70% ...