Age-related changes in protein tagging and degradation may help explain how the brain declines over time and why diet can still influence these processes.

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Scientists have uncovered a hidden molecular switch that may control how the brain ages. A new study from the Leibniz ...

The brain’s chatter has always been partly out of reach, with electrical spikes easy to record but the chemical whispers between neurons largely hidden. Now an engineered protein that lights up in ...

Holly has a degree in Medical Biochemistry from the University of Leicester. Her scientific interests include genomics, personalized medicine, and bioethics.View full profile Holly has a degree in ...

New scientific theory based on ancient proteins suggests that genes did not arise as we believed and that life could have started elsewhere.

URBANA, Ill. – Genes are the building blocks of life, and the genetic code provides the instructions for the complex processes that make organisms function. But how and why did it come to be the way ...

With a flexible, no-equipment-needed platform, ChBE researchers are creating a new way to test for disease at home or anywhere medical resources are limited. The team's modular cell-free protein ...

A study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has uncovered new clues to why some therapeutic proteins are so difficult to manufacture. The work—led by Nathan Lewis, PhD, ...

Transcription and translation are processes a cell uses to make all proteins the body needs to function from information stored in the sequence of bases in DNA. The four bases (C, A, T/U, and G in the ...