In 1957, just four years after Francis Crick and other scientists solved the riddle of DNA’s structure—the now famous double ...

DNA’s chemical cousin, RNA, was the messenger that carries DNA instructions from the double helix in the cell’s nucleus to ...

Our remarkable ability to perform complex tasks—such as thinking, observing, and touch—stems from proteins, the tiny ...

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As global temperatures rise, scientists are turning to an unexpected source—the same yeast that makes bread rise and beer ...

In a first-of-its-kind breakthrough, researchers at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering (UChicago PME) have turned a protein found in living cells into a functioning ...

A collaborative team from the Rosalind Franklin Institute, the University of Oxford, and Diamond Light Source has developed a breakthrough method that makes it possible to image very small proteins ...

A new study from researchers at the University of Illinois Chicago reveals how the blood-brain barrier gets leakier with age, ...

Raman-SEM enables next-generation biological imaging by combining chemical and structural analysis in a single workflow.

For decades, drug discovery has focused on inhibiting enzymes to treat disease. Yet vast swathes of the proteome remain ...

Universities of Tübingen and Hohenheim discover previously unknown peptide that prevents overreaction of the immune system in ...