In human cells, only a small proportion of the information written in genes is used to produce proteins. How does the cell ...

Accumulation of fat molecules is detrimental to the cell. Researchers from the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National ...

A study published in Science Advances reveals a novel strategy that allows tumors to evade the body's immune response ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

A study published in Science Advances reveals a novel strategy that allows tumors to evade the body’s immune response ...

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

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

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

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

The Sudan virus, a close relative of Ebola, has a fatality rate of 50% but remains poorly understood in terms of how it infects cells. Currently, no approved treatments exist. To address this critical ...