Alzheimer’s disease has proved to be a tricky target, and researchers and drug developers have been pursuing effective treatments for decades. The brains of people who die with Alzheimer’s show a ...

The 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded for the development of CRISPR/Cas9, a method also known as "gene scissors," ...

Receptor proteins, expressed on the cell surface or within the cell, bind to different signaling molecules, known as ligands, ...

Today, biological organisms are able to make use of phosphates through proteins – molecular machines that regulate all ...

Uptake of cell-free chromatin particles released from dying cells and carrying non-coding DNA could redefine mammalian ...

A joint research team from POSTECH and Inha University researchers has successfully developed a novel biomaterial that ...

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The enteric nervous system (ENS), the largest division of autonomic nervous system, is a tantalizing frontier in neuroscience. With the advent of single-cell transcriptomics, the ENS has been ...

The protein homeostasis (proteostasis) network (Balch et al, 2008), consisting of a collection of molecular chaperones, ...

Cell division is one of the most thoroughly studied processes in biology, yet many of its details remain mysterious. A century-old puzzle surrounding the “crown” of cell division – the kinetochore ...

Scientists often call it an antenna. This tiny structure, sticking out from the surface of most human cells, is known as the ...

The story of the princess and the pea evokes an image of a highly sensitive royal young woman so refined, she can sense a pea under a stack of mattresses.