DNA is fundamental to the biology of all life on Earth, but how many of us actually know what it is or what it's made of?

NR and vitamin B3 have slightly different chemical structures, but they share the same function ... These enzyme families, sirtuins (SIRTs) and poly(ADP-ribose) polymerases (PARPs), regulate numerous ...

FAMU-FSU College of Engineering researchers have created a new method for studying protein degradation within immune cells ...

Purdue University scientists have discovered a key mechanism that regulates how plants develop chloroplasts, essential ...

Bioluminescent luciferase enzymes have historically been too dim to use as probes in living tissue. But recent advances have ...

PARP7 is a mono-ADP-ribosyl transferase (mono-ART) which has recently gained attention due to its emerging role as a negative ...

In vertebrates, the skeleton of different regions of the body arises from different precursor cells. Researchers have now discovered that these skeletal cells do not just differ in their developmental ...

Scientists in Basel revealed that energy-producing proteins in mitochondria form large supercomplexes, boosting ATP ...

In this interview Prof. Dr. Kristina Kusche-Vihrog speaks about the nanomechanics of living cells and their implications for ...

Mitochondria are the powerhouses in our cells, producing the energy for all vital processes. Using cryo-electron tomography, researchers have now gained insight into the architecture of mitochondria ...

Structural biology is the study of the molecular structure and dynamics of biological macromolecules, particularly proteins and nucleic acids, and how alterations in their structures affect their ...