New research from the University of Wisconsin–Madison reveals that dysfunction in a protein essential to maintaining ...

How does the cell convert DNA into working proteins? The process of translation can be seen as the decoding of instructions for making proteins, involving mRNA in transcription as well as tRNA. But ...

The puzzle seems impossible: take a three-billion-letter code and predict what happens if you swap a single letter. The code we’re talking about—the human genome—stores most of its instructions in ...

Mayo Clinic researchers have identified a protein that acts like a traffic controller for DNA, preventing damage during cell division—a discovery that could lead to new cancer therapies, according to ...

At birth, people who carry a string of more than 40 CAG repeats within the first exon of the huntingtin gene are all but destined to develop Huntington’s disease. Yet, recent studies are converging on ...