How does the cell convert DNA into working proteins? The process of translation can be seen as the decoding of instructions for making proteins, involving mRNA in transcription as well as tRNA. But ...

Inside every cell, a finely tuned metabolic network determines when to build, recycle, or stop producing essential molecules.

Leiden researchers, led by Sebastian Pomplun, have developed a new method to screen hundreds of thousands of molecules for ...

Learn how tardigrades are able to tolerate extreme radiation with a unique protein that unwinds their DNA.

Tardigrades make a unique damage suppressor protein that researchers are working to harness for medicine, space, agriculture, ...

An international team led by researchers from King's College London (KCL) has now found that stubbornly persistent blood ...

Researchers at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory found that Dicer, an ancient RNA-cutting protein shared by humans and yeast, ...

In a groundbreaking discovery, scientists have cracked the DNA code of the longest living mammal, the bowhead whale, revealing a mechanism that could potentially prolong the human lifespan ...

New research from the University of Wisconsin–Madison reveals that dysfunction in a protein essential to maintaining ...