WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Scientists have recovered the oldest-known RNA, a molecule necessary for most biological functions, ...

Researchers have discovered how unstructured segments of surface proteins regulate the biological function of a cell. Their study, published in Nature Communications, sheds new light on the interplay ...

A new synthetic biology toolkit developed at Northwestern University will help researchers design mammalian cells with new functionalities. The toolkit, called the Composable Mammalian Elements of ...

By fusing enzyme fragments to antibodies, researchers from the Institute of Science Tokyo, in Japan, developed an innovative enzyme switch called "Switchbody," which is activated when bound to its ...

A new resource from the Gene Ontology Consortium, a comprehensive encyclopedia of the known functions of all protein-coding human genes, has been completed and released on a new website. For the first ...

I studied cryo-EM (cryo-electron microscopy) since my grad school time at Baylor College of Medicine, which was in 1996. I’ve been working with electron microscopy ever since. We're interested in cryo ...

Society is fascinated with health, fitness and longevity. This obsession has spawned a multi-million pound industry centered ...

A team of researchers has developed a theoretical model to design a soft material that demonstrates autonomous oscillating properties that mimic biological functions, like heartbeat. Northwestern ...

A new study shows that autism symptom severity, rather than a formal diagnosis, aligns with shared brain-connectivity patterns across children diagnosed with autism or ADHD.

Psychopaths have a 10% larger striatum than non-psychopaths, suggesting biological differences in brain structure. This ...

Northwestern Engineering researchers have developed a theoretical model to design soft materials that demonstrate autonomous oscillating properties that mimic biological functions. The work could ...