A new study from Weill Cornell Medicine provides insights into how cells maintain the tiny end caps of chromosomes as they ...

Our brain's remarkable ability to form and store memories has long fascinated scientists, yet most of the microscopic mechanisms behind memory and learning processes remain a mystery.

Complex protein interactions at synapses are essential for memory formation in our brains, but the mechanisms behind these processes remain poorly understood. Now, researchers have developed a ...

Scientists have for the first time looked deep into the protein structure that may determine our vision—and discovered that ...

Prions infect cells and turn good proteins bad by inducing structural overhaul. How these proteins replicate is not known, but what is it about their structural elements and sizes that make them ...

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“As a physician who treats patients with Parkinson’s disease, the recent elucidation of the human PINK1 protein structure bound to mitochondria is a significant and encouraging development ...