In ALS, the loss of certain proteins turns off a gene called UNC13A that needs to stay active for nerve cell communication, a ...

Italian scientists have identified a new function of the DDX11 protein, crucial for cell maintenance and neurodegenerative ...

Specifically, the researchers found that intersectin keeps tiny, message-carrying bubbles inside brain cells in a particular ...

Researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine say they unexpectedly found new information about a protein's special role in getting brain cells to communicate at the right time and place in experiments with ...

A protein located in the wrong part of a cell can contribute to several diseases, such as Alzheimer's, cystic fibrosis, and cancer. But there are about 70,000 different proteins and protein ...

BioEmu, a new deep learning system, predicts protein shapes quickly and accurately, complementing traditional molecular ...

Researchers at the Department of Biochemistry, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), have uncovered a long-sought mechanism employed by primitive land plants such as bryophytes (including mosses and ...

Enzymes known as kinases play a critical role in cell growth, metabolism and signaling in a multitude of organisms across the ...

Each cell in our bodies carries about two meters of DNA in its nucleus, packed into a tiny volume of just a few hundred cubic ...

Several days before she died, Angela Craig was concerned and frustrated that doctors couldn’t pinpoint why the mother of six ...