For decades, the dream of fixing harmful mutations in mitochondrial DNA felt out of reach. Scientists have long known these ...

At the surface, the immune response to a flu virus is simple. Some cells recognize the pathogen and send a signal to the ...

Every living cell must interpret its genetic code - a sequence of chemical letters that governs countless cellular functions.

T-bet is a transcription factor, one of the control proteins in the cell nucleus that can turn specific groups of genes on ...

Every living cell must interpret its genetic code—a sequence of chemical letters that governs countless cellular functions. A ...

The study, authored by Tripti Midha, Anatoly Kolomeisky and Oleg Igoshin and published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Molecular chaperones play a pivotal role in ensuring proper cellular protein homeostasis through their involvement in protein ...

The findings were published on January 7 in the journal Nucleic Acids Research in a paper titled "Single-molecule analysis reveals that IPMK enhances the DNA-binding activity of the transcription ...

A breakthrough assay is advancing how researchers observe gene expression in real time. Named QRIVTA (quantitative real-time ...

We don't know exactly why men are taller than women on average, but we have some genetic clues. On average, human males tend ...

Worms offer a simple yet powerful whole-organism model for studying senescence, mirroring mammalian aging processes and ...

Scientists at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital have reconciled two closely related but contentious mechanisms underlying ...