Tiny tweaks in DNA folding can have big effects. A study from Umeå University shows that even the most subtle changes in ...

Today, biological organisms are able to make use of phosphates through proteins – molecular machines that regulate all aspects of life. By binding to proteins, phosphates regulate metabolism and ...

Cell division is one of the most thoroughly studied processes in biology, yet many of its details remain mysterious. A century-old puzzle surrounding the “crown” of cell division – the kinetochore ...

Scientists have identified tubulin structures in primitive Asgard archea that may have been the precursor of our own cellular ...

Peer ReviewDownload a summary of the editorial decision process including editorial decision letters, reviewer comments and author responses to feedback. Enzymes in a pathway often form metabolons ...

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Keros Therapeutics has shaken up its leadership structure as the biotech attempts to shake off the failure of its blood pressure drug by going all in on an early-stage Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD ...

Scientists have discovered a mysterious new structure lurking inside every human cell. These tiny structures, dubbed hemifusomes, are just 200 to 400 nanometres in diameter. To put that into ...

In a scientific first, researchers from Vanderbilt University and the University of California, San Diego, have generated a high-resolution metabolic "map" of how cells orchestrate glucose processing, ...

Holly has a degree in Medical Biochemistry from the University of Leicester. Her scientific interests include genomics, personalized medicine, and bioethics. Imagine you open up the hood of your car ...

Scientists just discovered the hemifusome, a membrane-bound organelle that helps cells recycle cargo © University of Virginia School of Medicine Even after decades ...