Oligonucleotide therapies are among the most promising biological therapeutics. They target disease at a different stage of ...

The research focuses on cells’ “feet,” which are small bundles of molecules that help cells move. Scientists are exploring ...

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

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

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

Researchers developed a technique to gain a deeper understanding of ribosome function and their cooperative behaviors.

Scientists from the Cancer Dependency Map (DepMap) at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard and Columbia University have ...

Sunburn has traditionally been attributed to UV-induced DNA damage, but it turns out that this is not the full truth.

For decades, scientists have tried to stop cancer by disabling the mutated proteins that are found in tumors. But many cancers manage to overcome this and continue growing. Now, scientists think they ...

For decades, scientists have tried to stop cancer by disabling the mutated proteins that are found in tumors. But many ...

An MTF2-containing subcomplex of Polycomb Repressive Complex 2 promotes cell cycle progression through repression of D-type cyclin expression in certain cellular contexts.

UCSF scientists discover how cancer cells hijack the protein factory of the cell to churn out MYC protein, the driver of 70% ...