One of the most detailed 3D maps of how the human chromosomes are organized and folded within a cell's nucleus is published ...

Proteins are among the most important molecular building blocks of life. They are chains of amino acids assembled in our cells by ribosomes, the molecular "protein factories" of our bodies. The ...

Scientists organize millions of proteins by shape, as predicted by AI, revealing 700,000 new families and some shapes unique ...

Calcium (Ca2+) drives many cellular functions, though the way it controls quality of proteins in the endoplasmic reticulum ...

Scientists have engineered a protein able to record the incoming chemical signals of brain cells (as opposed to just their ...

Your next favorite true crime podcast might have some new forensics jargon to make sense of. Researchers in Australia have developed a new way to identify humans – similar to how we do with DNA and ...

What makes someone a "morning lark" or a "night owl?" Why does jet lag hit us so hard, and why do some people struggle each ...

The research represents a major step forward in revealing how the three dimensional form of DNA shapes the way human biology functions. In a major step toward understanding how the physical form of ...

Are different forms of breathing derived from one or multiple neural networks? We demonstrate that brainstem slices containing the pre-Bötzinger complex generated two rhythms when normally oxygenated, ...