As we age, the muscles we rely on for daily activities tend to become less reliable. With enough decline, even normal ...

As we get older, our brains start to change in ways that make them increasingly vulnerable to disease – and a detailed new ...

RNA, widely known from the COVID-19 vaccine, is not actually a "therapeutic agent," but a technology that delivers the ...

Researchers have pinpointed what causes normal proteins to convert to a diseased form, causing conditions like CJD and Kuru. For the first time, researchers have pinpointed what causes normal proteins ...

All mammals produce a version of the prion protein, but scientists don’t know what it normally does. In an altered form, the prion protein becomes an infectious agent that causes “mad cow disease” and ...

The small molecule spermine has the potential to stop the toxic build-up of proteins in the brain that characterizes diseases ...

The scientists' new 'binder-tag' technique allows researchers to pinpoint and track proteins that are in a desired shape or 'conformation,' and to do so in real time inside living cells. The ...

New research published in Nature Communications has linked a normal cellular process to an accumulation of DNA mutations in ...

Discovery reveals how key molecules coordinate chromosome alignment and offers a new anticancer targetA research team from ...