The mammalian elongation complex has remained a mystery – until researchers discovered how it controls its speed.

Tracking how genes switch on and off in the brain is essential for understanding many neurological diseases, yet the tools to ...

Tracking how genes switch on and off in the brain is essential for understanding many neurological diseases, yet the tools ...

Brain injury resulting from hypoxia (oxygen deprivation) or ischemia (restricted blood flow) represents a major challenge in medical research and clinical ...

The genetic code is the recipe for life, and provides the instructions for how to make proteins, generally using just 20 ...

KIT researchers succeeded for the first time in reducing the number of chromosomes in a plant using the CRISPR/Cas method – surprisingly without affecting its growth The CRISPR/Cas molecular scissors ...

Bioengineering aims to improve targeted cancer therapies by enhancing drug delivery, boosting immune responses, and refining surgical techniques. The field is highly interdisciplinary, merging ...

Researchers at the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) and collaborators have introduced a novel therapeutic strategy for Alzheimer’s disease (AD) that leverages the multivalency of ...

Twelve teams reached the Cancer Grand Challenges finals, including two with UC San Diego scientists. Ludmil Alexandrov (L) and Trey Ideker (R) are both on teams selected for the shortlist of Cancer ...

AI analysis uncovers why certain protein interactions behave like a finger trap, gripping tighter the harder they’re pulled. Imagine tugging on a Chinese finger trap. The harder you pull, the tighter ...

UC Santa Barbara professor Dorit Hanein, a leading expert in cellular tomography — a technique that allows researchers to see the inside of a cell in three dimensions with remarkable detail — has been ...

Although scientists know a lot about the process of human embryo implantation, it had never been recorded in real time, until now. Now that investigators can observe it in action, they may be able to ...