Membraneless organelles, also called biomolecular condensates, are changing how scientists think about protein chemistry, ...

Think back to that basic biology class you took in high school. You probably learned about organelles, those little "organs" ...

5 Gene regulation ensures that genes are expressed at the right times and in the right cells. Techniques such as Polymerase ...

Under this two-hit model, Brugge says, one normal copy of BRCA1 ought to be able to carry out DNA repair even when the other ...

For decades, biology textbooks have neatly compartmentalised cellular functions. Mitochondria are the powerhouses of the cell, the cytoplasm is a bustling factory floor for protein synthesis, and the ...

Nov. 4, 2024 — A research team has discovered two remarkable species of bacteria in the tissue of two deep-sea corals from the Gulf of Mexico. These previously unknown symbionts of the corals ...

Scientists have successfully immortalized lip cells, creating a clinically relevant lab model that enables testing of new ...

Metabolic enzymes, typically associated with energy production, are now discovered to also play essential roles in the nucleus, such as orchestrating cell division and DNA repair. This breakthrough, ...

Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) will use a Department of Education fellowship grant to train the next generation of ...

A team led by Prof. WANG Chao and Prof. HUANG Chengdong from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) of the ...

McGavock Professor and chair of the Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, has proposed and validated a mechanism that addresses a decades-old ... Recent research at the Institute of ...