Researchers have identified a specific enzyme that clumps up and damages cellular powerhouses in the brains of mice with ...

Researchers were able to restore the function of neurons linked to cognitive function and information processing in mice that ...

A new technology promises to enable more comprehensive investigations into how individual genes determine the appearance and behavior of cells. Researchers led by professor Veit Hornung at LMU's Gene ...

A review published in the journal Molecular Biomedicine provides a comprehensive overview of the METTL family, a group of methyltransferase-like proteins crucial for cellular function. METTL family ...

UCLA researchers used a genome-wide CRISPR screen to identify the Cullin-5 RING E3 ligase complex as a key driver of T-cell ...

The 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded for the development of CRISPR/Cas9, a method also known as "gene scissors," which enables researchers to better understand how human cells function and ...

The essential amino acid leucine can boost cellular energy production by protecting key proteins on mitochondria from being ...

When people think about health, they often focus on specific organs like the heart or brain. But many changes related to chronic conditions or ageing begin in the smallest units of your body — your ...

Methods like this can help scientists sort through potential drug candidates faster and with more biological detail.

A team of researchers led by Dr. Kim V. Narry, director of the Center for RNA Research at the Institute for Basic Science (IBS), has uncovered a key cellular mechanism that affects the function of ...