The human genome encodes potentially thousands of tiny proteins that were previously overlooked. The search is on to find out ...

Low-density lipoproteins (LDL)—commonly known as bad cholesterol—have long been on scientists' radar as a major contributor ...

Figure 1: Domain structure of ubiquitin-specific ... such as neuronal precursor cell expressed developmentally downregulated protein 8 (NEDD8), in which the C-terminal sequence is Leu-Ala-Leu ...

Chromatin, the mix of DNA and protein that houses each cell's genome, is more resilient to aging than previously thought, suggests a study published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society by ...

Every cell in your body contains the same genetic sequence, yet each cell expresses only a subset of those genes. These ...

Low-density lipoproteins (LDL) -- commonly known as bad cholesterol -- have long been on scientists' radar as a major contributor to heart disease. But these microscopic troublemakers have hidden ...

The way the body ages could be more resilient than previously thought, a new study suggests.

Iowa State researchers are exploring the depths of human cells, which could hold the key to new cancer treatments.  Biology ...

Innovative designs of GPCRs with enhanced signaling and stability offer new insights for drug discovery and synthetic biology ...

ChromoGen: A quick method to determine 3D genomic structures using generative AI, enabling the prediction of thousands of ...

The structure and function of key prokaryotic cell structures. Prokaryotes have ribosomes but they are smaller and structurally simpler than those in eukaryotic cells. These non-membrane-bound ...