Understanding how cells turn genes on and off is one of biology's most enduring mysteries. Now, a new technology developed by ...

At times, aging doesn’t become evident in wrinkles or in gray hair, it occurs deep inside your body, in cells that have ceased to divide but are still alive. These “zombie cells,” or senescent cells ...

A better understanding of protein glycosylation offers insights into disease mechanisms and helps improve therapeutic medicines.

Current demand for plastics and chemical raw materials is met through large-scale production of ethylene from fossil fuels.

By restructuring a common chemotherapy drug, scientists increased its potency by 20,000 times. In a significant step forward for cancer therapy, researchers at Northwestern University have redesigned ...

Challenging a long-standing assumption regarding the adult brain, recent research has demonstrated that individuals can ...

An artificial intelligence model predicts how brain immune cells react to RNA and DNA nanoparticles, helping scientists design safer and more effective nucleic acid therapies faster.

Most current approaches rely on adding nuclear localization signal (NLS) motifs to the ends of Cas9 to facilitate nuclear entry. However, this method is inefficient, and much of the Cas9 that is ...

A new experimental compound, RAGE406R, prevented heart, kidney, and tissue damage caused by diabetes by blocking a harmful ...

Researchers used cryo-EM to study how the HIV enzyme integrase arranges in 3D to slip its DNA into the host genome and pack ...

For decades, scientists believed the essence of life was written solely in four chemical bases: A, C, T, and G. Together, ...