For the first time, a research team at the Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK) has succeeded in ...

A research team led by Purdue University’s W. Andy Tao has discovered of a new type of protein modification related to cellular mutation that impairs a crucial enzyme’s ability to help drive energy ...

Amino acids are like Lego blocks - they can be linked together to form complex structures called proteins. Unlike Legos, however, there are only 20 different types of amino acids available to build a ...

Spatio-temporal regulation of gene expression and cellular behavior is critical for ensuring developmental robustness in all multicellular organisms. The mechanisms regulating robustness are often ...

The authors used genetic mutations in VANGL2 to study cell morphological changes during differentiation of hPSCs and understand the mechanisms underlying neural tube closure defects. The findings are ...

Modifications to a type of immune cell programmed to recognize and kill cancerous tumors could make them even more effective assassins. Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) ...

About half of Americans between 45 and 84 have atherosclerosis without knowing it. Diseases linked to atherosclerosis are the leading cause of death in the United States. The condition develops when ...

When cells are healthy, we don't expect them to suddenly change cell types. A skin cell on your hand won't naturally morph into a brain cell, and vice versa. That's thanks to epigenetic memory, which ...

In vivo CAR T-cell therapies could improve access by eliminating complex logistics and reducing costs, making them more accessible to underserved populations. Traditional CAR T-cell therapies face ...

This article presents a novel perspective on plant embryogenesis, fundamentally differentiating it from the animal embryo model upon which plant models have long been based to discern the genetic and ...