New research challenges the view that proteins are the only key to evolution, highlighting the importance of lipids.

Oregon Health & Science University, in collaboration with Oregon State University, has discovered the structural organization ...

Researchers from the University of Eastern Finland, Aalto University and the University of Oulu have developed a new ...

The RNA cloud formed around genes regulates their readout into RNA. Triplexes help define where in the genome a cloud forms. Proteins and other fl ...

The human genome is like a big ball of yarn, made up of 3 billion molecular units arranged in sequence and then wrapped up ...

Early DNA Organization is Robust and FlexibleWhen the egg and sperm fuse, a comprehensive reorganization of DNA begins within ...

An international research team has provided a detailed insight into how the spatial organization of genetic material is established in the cell nucleus of early embryos within the first hours after ...

UT researchers have created an alternative to Edman degradation for protein sequencing using bases instead of acid ...

Historically, small molecule drugs have been precisely designed down to the atomic scale. Considering their relatively large complex structures, nanomedicines have lagged behind. Researchers argue ...

A new study from Weill Cornell Medicine suggests that the way DNA folds inside brain cells could play a key role in the ...

BP1 is a key player in DNA repair and together with BRCA1 regulate selection of DNA double strand break repair mechanisms. Localization of DNA repair factors to sites of DNA damage by 53BP1 is ...