In their quest for safe, mass-producible artificial blood, geneticists have long struggled. Our limited knowledge of genetic ...

Broadband NIR spectroscopy, a portable brain-monitoring tool, detects metabolic changes linked to dementia.

Tiny tweaks in DNA folding can have big effects. A study from Umeå University shows that even the most subtle changes in ...

A protein historian and evolutionary biochemist found that a protein sequence present across all known life didn’t form as ...

Nobel winners' mapping of ribosomes helps in development of new antibiotics (CNN)-- Two Americans and an Israeli were awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry on Wednesday for painstakingly mapping out ...

The protein homeostasis (proteostasis) network (Balch et al, 2008), consisting of a collection of molecular chaperones, ...

If you have kids in school, or even if you don’t, you’ve probably realized that there’s a lot about the day-to-day of school ...

Type 2 diabetes directly alters the heart's structure and energy systems, which explains why people with diabetes are at ...

A refined type of spectroscopy could advance a long-standing debate about the presence of dinosaur soft tissue ...

Scientists at Feinberg are reshaping scientific understanding of the cell's tiniest components—structures once thought to be ...

VIB researchers and colleagues have discovered a mechanism through which melanoma cells adapt and switch between two major ...

A new study from UC Davis Health researchers reveals a promising new way to treat various bone loss conditions, including age ...