The yeast RGG motif-containing RNA binding protein Scd6 and its human ortholog LSM14A regulate the translation of specific ...

While a comprehensive cure-all to these neurological conditions is unlikely, scientists are making headway into understanding their fundamental characteristics with the hope of preventing or ...

The molecular mechanism behind why heart attacks can vary in severity depending on the time of day has been uncovered by ...

One of the challenges of fighting pancreatic cancer is finding ways to penetrate the organ's dense tissue to define the margins between malignant and normal tissue. A new study uses DNA origami ...

Heidelberg biochemists and structural biologists from Shanghai unravel the roles of two key regulatory factors in mRNA splicing. Two molecular control factors play a key role in splicing, the process ...

Researchers at the Leibniz Institute on Aging—Fritz Lipmann Institute (FLI) in Jena have discovered a new function of the DNA repair protein ATR in regulating mitochondrial homeostasis.

allowing the team to obtain a detailed 3D structure of the whole protein-DNA complex. Using specialized microscopes built in Spies's lab, the researchers were also able to monitor the RAD52-DNA ...

Department of Materials Science and Engineering, College of Engineering, Seoul National University, 1 Gwanak-ro, Gwanak-gu, Seoul 08826, Republic of Korea Research Institute of Advanced Materials, ...

Dysregulation of protein synthesis contributes to cancer cell plasticity, driving GBM cell heterogeneity, metastatic behavior, and drug resistance. Understanding the complex network and signaling ...

Liu Feng from the Institute of Zoology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has identified a crucial role for the tryptophan-aspartic acid (WD) repeat protein ... susceptible to DNA damage and ...