Inside every cell, a finely tuned metabolic network determines when to build, recycle, or stop producing essential molecules.

Scientists from Oxford's Radcliffe Department of Medicine have achieved the most detailed view yet of how DNA folds and ...

DNA stands for Deoxyribonucleic Acid, the molecule that carries the genetic code of all living things. It’s found in every cell and determines everything from your looks to your body functions. In ...

In the early 1980s, David Gilmour, now an emeritus biochemistry and molecular biology professor at Pennsylvania State University, joined the laboratory of geneticist and biochemist John Lis as a ...

A better understanding of protein glycosylation offers insights into disease mechanisms and helps improve therapeutic medicines.

(a) Specificity of supraglacial virus populations (vOTUs). (b) Shared and unique vOTUs across different regions. (c) Proportion of classified vOTUs. (d) Compositions of classified vOTUs. (e) Relative ...

MIT researchers discovered that the genome’s 3D structure doesn’t vanish during cell division as previously thought. Instead, tiny loops called microcompartments remain (and even strengthen) while ...

Children living in war-torn countries not only suffer from poor mental health outcomes, but war may cause adverse biological changes at the DNA level, which could have lifelong health impacts, ...

In most cases, this manifested as reduced DNA methylation activity. As this process plays a key role in a number of ...

The company scans entire proteins with CRISPR to find functional vulnerabilities, then hunts for molecules that exploit them ...