A resurrected ancient enzyme is helping scientists test how reliably Earth’s oldest rocks record signs of life.

Researchers have found evidence of nuclear metabolic enzymes for the first time, contributing to our understanding of cancer ...

An important study has uncovered an unexpected molecular player that helps make cancer cells stress-resilient, thereby promoting the survival, growth and progression of tumours. Researchers have ...

Finding out how microbes make compounds containing the diazo chemical group could help researchers to synthesize useful ...

Osteoarthritis in the jaw joint, or TMJ osteoarthritis, affects millions worldwide, yet effective treatments are limited. Researchers from Boston University now report that a naturally occurring ...

Ammonia buildup may speed hepatocellular carcinoma in mice. Read more to see how a low-protein diet could slow tumour growth.

More than 200 metabolic enzymes, many of which are normally tasked with producing energy in the mitochondria, are also found sitting directly on top of human DNA, according to a study published in ...

Distinguished Professor and founding director of the Rutgers Center for Lipid Research (RCLR), George Carman, recently received the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology's ...

Crystal jellyfish have an eerie beauty: thanks to a natural protein, they emit a faint green glow. For decades, researchers ...

Innate immune sensors—known as pattern recognition receptors (PRRs)—detect specific molecular components of bacterial or ...

Cancers emerge from many different paths. One path begins early, in embryonic development, when a protein complex called PRC2 ...

Coronaviruses not only use the machinery of the human cells they infect: they modify them to achieve optimal conditions to ...