This important study demonstrates the potential of synthetic gene circuits to detect and target aberrant RAS activity in cancer cell lines. The circuit design is novel and the evidence supporting the ...

This article examines viral and non-viral vectors in gene therapy, highlighting their mechanisms, advantages, and limitations ...

Researchers created replicas of 3D cell structures inside Minecraft and made them available for anyone to use in their own installation of the game.

Mitochondria play a crucial role in cellular energy production, and their dysfunction has long been linked to metabolic ...

Right now, approximately 20 billion red blood cells are busy traveling through your blood vessels. They are delivering oxygen ...

Northwestern Medicine scientists have discovered new details about how the human genome produces instructions for creating ...

Mitochondrial damage is common in metabolic diseases like Diabetes, affecting insulin production and function in patients. Diabetics’ insulin-producing β-cells have abnormal mitochondria, impairing ...

A complex molecular machine, the spliceosome, ensures that the genetic information from the genome, after being transcribed into mRNA precursors, is correctly assembled into mature mRNA. Splicing is a ...

With the strong associations established in epidemiologic studies and a dearth of evidence on the actual mechanisms by which ...

A group of scientists in China has revealed a novel mechanism whereby a short form of IL-18, generated by caspase-3 cleavage ...

As well as being essential in the precise packaging of DNA into the space of the nucleus, histone proteins are also the site ...

By taking yeast cells and rebuilding their genomes ... Previous experiments had been done on prokaryotes (single-celled organisms that lack a nucleus), but a full synthetic genome had not been ...