Human cells adjust to ever-changing conditions while preserving internal states necessary for survival, but exactly how they ...

Our cells adjust to ever-changing conditions while preserving internal states necessary for survival, but exactly how they ...

Zinc is an essential trace element that controls myriad biological processes. The delicate balance of its concentration in ...

Protein arginylation is an evolutionarily conserved post‐translational modification whereby arginine is covalently attached to specific residues on target proteins. Mediated principally by the enzyme ...

AI‑designed intracellular antibody fragments can stay stable inside cells and bind misfolded proteins, opening new treatment ...

Scientists have long been trying to tease apart hepatitis A virus, to understand its inner workings and how it functions in the human body. Infectious disease researchers have discovered that a little ...

Schematic diagram showing how the PolyTAC antibody zeroes in on a specific biomarker, which then directs the polymer to form an indent in the cell membrane at the exact location of the target protein.

Scientists have uncovered an unexpected way cells can generate cancer-driving proteins—by cutting RNA into shorter, ...

Researchers at the Leibniz Institute on Aging - Fritz Lipmann Institute (FLI) in Jena found that oxidative stress in the ...

Cancer cells can disarm the immune system not just by hiding from it, but by actively reprogramming nearby immune cells into ...

While the PolyTAC approach, like most protein therapies, focuses on eliminating problem proteins, Shuai Gong, who earned his Ph.D. in chemistry at UMass Amherst, and Jingyi Qiu, a biomedical ...