Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have characterized how cellular senescence—a biological process in ...

An international group of researchers led by Pompeu Fabra University has discovered the nanomachine that controls ...

Complex sugar-protein molecules that sense external messages to help a cell grow or respond to its environment can now be ...

After three years of study, the researchers found that alpha-synuclein, a protein closely linked to Parkinson’s disease, forms an abnormal connection with an enzyme called ClpP. This enzyme normally ...

Extremophile microbes from hot springs may hold the secret to the next generation of natural, eco-friendly sunscreen.

In high enough doses, hydrogen cyanide can kill an adult human in minutes, but the chemical may be the reason why we’re here ...

Navigating the world is no mean feat, especially when the world pushes back. For instance, airflow hitting a fly on its right ...

The first place tobacco often shows its damage is not the lungs. It is the mouth. If you smoke, your gums face a daily ...

Researchers use synthetic biology to reverse-engineer modern nitrogenases and rebuild their possible ancestors, in an effort to better understand the origins of life on Earth and beyond.

Deciphering the building blocks of life has long been a painstaking process, but now a quiet revolution in computing power is changing everything – with research at the University of Otago’s Faculty ...

The Sands of Time Remake is one of six projects that have been cancelled in the overhaul, along with seven more that are ...

The protein called intelectin-2 plays another important role by reinforcing the protective mucus layer that lines the ...