Scientists have discovered that some tiny segments of RNA thought to be junk instead have a functional role in suppressing production of certain messenger RNAs and appear to help cells respond to ...

A complementary drug to combat Alzheimer's disease could target a specific part of the nerve cell protein tau. This is the finding of research from the University of Gothenburg, which also offers a ...

What started as a breakfast meeting question has led to the awarding of new research funding from The National Eye Institute ...

Chemists at Emory University have invented a reaction to streamline the total synthesis of a compound, phaeocaulisin A, ...

There's a growing body of evidence that gold nanoparticles can offer significant, targeted weight loss that focuses on fat ...

Stellaromics, a pioneer in 3D spatial biology spun out of the laboratories of Karl Deisseroth (Stanford University) and Xiao Wang (MIT and Broad Institute), today announced the completion of a Series ...

Synthetic biologists from Yale were able to re-write the genetic code of an organism - a novel genomically recoded organism (GRO) with one stop codon - using a cellular platform that they developed ...

ECE Associate Professor Kerem Çamsarı and group receive the prestigious Misha Mahowald Prize in Neuromorphic Engineering ...

Proteins' amino-acid sequences appear to guide their access to blob-like aggregates involved in many cell processes ...

ECE Associate Professor Kerem Çamsarı and team receive the prestigious Misha Mahowald Prize in Neuromorphic Engineering ...