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

Researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine say they unexpectedly found new information about a protein's special role in getting ...

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

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

Advanced light microscopy techniques are giving scientists a new understanding of human biology and what goes wrong in ...

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

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

Advanced imaging has revealed how a membrane protein’s unique structure enables a bacterial predator to attack and consume ...

Adipogenesis, the process of forming mature fat cells, is central to energy balance and obesity-related diseases. At the ...

In a surprising twist on plant genetics, researchers have identified a mitochondrial protein that directly regulates wood ...

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 ...

A breakthrough for the customized treatment of cancer and other diseases is so promising that University of Washington ...