Nonsense-mediated mRNA decay (NMD) is one of the most important processes in our cells to ensure that no faulty or incomplete ...

Loss and dysfunction of synapses have been linked to age-related cognitive decline and observed in Alzheimer's and other ...

Researchers from the University of Cologne and the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry show that the targeted interaction of two proteins ensures that a key control mechanism in the formation of prot ...

Innate immune sensors—known as pattern recognition receptors (PRRs)—detect specific molecular components of bacterial or ...

From the 1950s to 1970s, discovery of enzymes began by identifying new chemical reactions within cell-free extracts, but ...

Aerial view somewhere between Yuma and Gila Bend. Canon EOS 5D Mark III | 135mm | F7.1 | 1/1600 sec | ISO 200 Photo: DianeMiller DPReview community member DianeMiller (Diane D. Miller) is an active ...

On Wednesday, the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission announced that it had issued its first construction approval in nearly a decade. The approval will allow work to begin on a site in Kemmerer, Wyoming ...

Researchers uncovered a signaling cascade that regulates interferon production during viral infection. The mechanism relies on a specific molecular modification that organizes antiviral signaling ...

Researchers from the MPI of Biochemistry and the Technical University of Munich have discovered new diagnostic markers for multiple sclerosis (MS), a disease that affects 3 million people worldwide.

In the late 1800s, more than a hundred years before smartphones and weather apps, a physicist discovered you could step ...

Scientists have identified a critical breakdown in the cellular machinery that produces proteins in aging brains.