A mutation in the TDP-43 protein reduces the viability of motor neurons without triggering protein clumps, researchers found.

The origin of the nucleus remains hotly debated among scientists, but new imaging and genomic data are shedding light on this billion-year-old mystery.

Antisense oligonucleotides (ASOs), used to treat genetic diseases, can affect how cells repair damage to their DNA. This is ...

A recent study by Fred Hutch biochemist Christopher Lapointe, PhD, and his colleagues, uses innovative lab techniques to ...

It infects nearly one-third of the global population, yet its microscopic size makes the parasite difficult for scientists to study. That parasite is Toxoplasma gondii, a widespread organism that ...

Dedifferentiated liposarcoma lacks effective IGF-1→PPAR-γ adipogenic signaling due to epigenetic silencing of PPAR-γ2, with ...

A single treatment of viral vector-delivered CAR-A construct in mice with existing plaque saturation cut the amount of amyloid plaques in half.

By Joey Garcia, University Communications and MarketingIt infects nearly one-third of the global population, yet its microscopic size makes ...

Scientists are trying to understand how complex life emerged on Earth about 2 billion years ago. Our microbial ancestors could be the key.

This important study demonstrates that a peri-nuclear actomyosin network, present in some types of human cells, facilitates kinetochore-spindle attachment of chromosomes in unfavorable locations - ...

Targeted protein degradation tricks the internal machinery of cells in weeds to destroy proteins that are essential to their survival.