A promising path to fighting COVID and other coronaviruses may have been based on a serious mistake. Scientists had zeroed in ...

Collagen IV provides crucial structural support for cells and tissues, but it’s unstable at body temperature. Researchers now ...

Essentially, cereblon and its target proteins can change shape to form a complex with the cereblon, the target, and the ...

The COVID pandemic illustrated how urgently we need antiviral medications capable of treating coronavirus infections. To aid ...

Professor Hirohide Saito (Department of Life Science Frontiers at CiRA / The University of Tokyo) and Assistant Professor ...

Cornell researchers have found a new and potentially more accurate way to see what proteins are doing inside living cells - using the cells' own components as built-in sensors.

Summary: New research reveals how a tiny chemical mark on RNA helps wire the brain during development. Scientists discovered ...

One class of functionally important RNA is repeating transcripts that cause disease through various mechanisms. For example, expanded CAG repeats can cause Huntington’s and other disease through ...

News & Views Published: August 2009 Kill the messenger: bacterial antisense RNA promotes mRNA decay E Gerhart H Wagner Nature Structural & Molecular Biology 16, 804–806 (2009) Cite this article ...

Scientists have discovered the internal shape of tiny drug-delivery particles – called lipid nanoparticles – has a big impact ...

Water plays a crucial role in determining the functions of biomolecules and nanomaterials. However, the electronic structure of water molecules at the nanoscale remains elusive. In this study, we ...