Scientists uncover how the nucleolus, a tiny structure within cells, may control aging and lifespan, opening new ...

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

When Xiao Wang applied to faculty jobs, many of the institutions where she interviewed thought her research proposal - to ...

Synthetic biologists from Yale were recode the genetic code of an organism, a novel genomically recoded organism (GRO) with ...

Researchers created replicas of 3D cell structures inside Minecraft and made them available for anyone to use in their own installation of the game.

Aneuploidy is frequent in cancer, but in vitro it triggers multiple cellular stresses and often delays proliferation. Through ...

Scientists have linked roughly five percent of adult cancers to mutations in genes called FOCAD and TTC37. Another gene known ...

In my Feb 9 issue of Science, I read where our next big computer will work at the exaflop level (picture a switch being ...

Protein synthesis is vital for life, translating genetic information from DNA to functional proteins through transcription ...

Postdoctoral scholar Daniela Soto has earned a prestigious fellowship from HHMI with eight years of funding to study the ...

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

During translation, ribosomes can pause on the nucleic acid. Researchers showed that collisions from incoming proteins get ...