Among the many marvels of life is the cell's ability to divide and thus enable organisms to grow and renew themselves. For ...

For successful cell division, chromosomal DNA needs to be packed into compact rod-shaped structures. Defects in this process can lead to cell death or diseases like cancer. A new study has shown how ...

Discover PINK1 structure offers new hope for Parkinson’s disease treatment by revealing its mitochondrial interactions and ...

Among the many marvels of life is the cell's ability to divide and thus enable organisms to grow and renew themselves.

Scientists at EMBL have captured how human chromosomes fold into their signature rod shape during cell division, using a ...

Engineers at MIT have devised an ingenious new way to produce artificial muscles for soft robots that can flex in more than ...

With the long-term goal of creating living cells from non-living components, scientists in the field of synthetic biology work with RNA origami. This tool uses the multifunctionality of the natural ...

Scientists from Germany and Italy have uncovered details of the protective layer that surrounds the fine protrusions of cells ...

In a mouse or human embryo, the cells that will one ... This sets up a new structure that cements the cell's future fate as a sperm cell. The companion paper shows that well before the germ ...

The cells in human bodies are subject to both chemical and mechanical forces. But until recently, scientists have not ...

A previously unknown protein in a family of bacteria found in soil and the human gut microbiome has ... like bacterial proteins – its structure. Dr. Julien Bergeron, Senior Lecturer in the Randall ...

WEHI researchers have solved a decades-long mystery by determining the structure of human PINK1, a key protein linked to ...