Life runs on instructions you never see. Every cell reads DNA, turns that message into RNA, and then builds proteins that ...

On 17 February 1869, Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev jotted down the symbols for the chemical elements, putting them in order according to their atomic weights and inventing the periodic table. He ...

Purpose: Autosomal dominant optic atrophy is a form of blindness, due in part to mutations affecting the mitochondrial-targeted OPA1 gene product. Both OPA1-positive and OPA1-negative families exhibit ...

Everything on Earth is made of atoms, most of which are closely packed together in the form of minerals. Life has its uses for minerals—ask a coral reef—but its essence lies in atoms arranged as ...

Translation is the process by which a protein is synthesized by the ribosome, using a messenger RNA (mRNA) template. N-Myristoylation by NMT1 is an essential modification in humans safeguarding ...