The genetic code acts as life’s instruction manual, telling cells how to build proteins from DNA and RNA. Though it's a ...

Eating leafy greens may help boost testosterone levels. However, if you're not a big green eater, beans, nuts and dark ...

Heidelberg biochemists and structural biologists from Shanghai unravel the roles of two key regulatory factors in mRNA ...

In line with the ban of drug formulations containing chloramphenicol and nitrofurans for use in any food-producing animal ...

Damage to the mitochondria, the 'power plants' of the cells, contributes to many diseases. Researchers now describe how cells with defective mitochondria activate a special recycling system to ...

Plant cells without walls, known as protoplasts, are very fragile, and it has been difficult to keep them alive under a ...

In evolutionary terms, fitness is defined as an organism's ability to survive and reproduce its genes into the next ...

Scientists are looking for answers about how these confounding trips, known as metastases, occur throughout the human body ...

Saccharin destabilizes bacterial membranes and interferes with DNA replication, causing lysis and impairing virulence traits.

A new study reveals that microRNAs—tiny regulators of gene expression—play a crucial role in shaping Purkinje cells, rare ...

Researchers at the Leibniz Institute on Aging—Fritz Lipmann Institute (FLI) in Jena have discovered a new function of the DNA ...