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

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

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

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 ...

The membrane of the cell protects the cell from its surroundings and divides it into internal compartments; it is responsible for metabolism, energy production, communication with other cells and much ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...