ITS long been a favourite among pandas, making up almost their entire diet. But bamboo could soon be human’s next ‘superfood’ ...

Extracellular vesicles (EVs), including exosomes, microvesicles, apoptotic bodies, and many other EV subtypes, have emerged ...

Neurotoxic venom directly attacks the nerves and prevents the brain from receiving or sending signals to the muscles. Snake ...

Mukherjee is a physician, researcher, and author. He has co-founded several biotechnology and health care companies focused on developing novel cancer treatments, including Faeth Therapeutics and ...

Aβ and tau get much of the glory in Alzheimer’s disease, but the disease is far more complex than two proteins. Scientists know, for example, that lipid metabolism goes awry, but identifying ...

Edward Lyman, associate professor in the departments of physics and astronomy, as well as chemistry and biochemistry, was recently published in the journal Nature Chemical Biology. The article, “When ...

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Aging is particularly harsh on the hippocampus, the brain region responsible for learning and memory. Now, researchers at UC San Francisco have identified a protein that’s at the center of this ...

ANCIENT PROTEINS nestled in fossils contain troves of information about long-dead creatures. However, like all ancient molecules, proteins degrade. Until recently the oldest proteins recovered for ...