Ribosomes are the cell's protein factories, which read the genetic code and assemble the proteins that every organism needs ...

The microbiome—the trillions of bacteria, viruses, and fungi that live quietly in our body—plays a crucial role in shaping human health by providing a variety of micronutrients necessary for vital ...

Scientists have successfully created immature human egg-like cells from skin-derived stem cells, a significant step in ...

The biological research of UC Santa Cruz’s Needhi Bhalla to determine the molecular motions at the heart of heredity has yielded a new discovery: The proper transfer of genetic materials depends on ...

Scientists at the (RBI) in Zagreb, Croatia, have discovered that the protein CENP-E, long believed to act as a motor ...

The first-of-its-kind study shows that adding a small molecule that blocks the problematic protein to existing cancer ...

Professor Sir John Gurdon, the pioneering scientist who won a Nobel Prize and founded the University of Cambridge’s Gurdon Institute, has died at the age of 92. Described as an “inspirational figure” ...

Although it is known that Alzheimer's disease can start up to 20 years before the first symptoms appear, the lack of knowledge about how it progresses prevents the development of effective treatments, ...