While we often think of diseases as caused by foreign bodies—bacteria or viruses—there are hundreds of diseases affecting humans that result from errors in cellular production of proteins. A team of ...

Genes are the building blocks of life, and the genetic code provides the instructions for the complex processes that make organisms function. But how and why did it come to be the way it is? "We find ...

Nevertheless, some preliminary steps have been taken. Researchers have managed to add some new amino acids to a bacterial cell and were able to make proteins that were one amino acid less than usual.

The p53 protein is a tumor suppressor that plays a crucial role in preventing the formation of cancerous cells. But when it mutates and becomes defective in cells, the protein can significantly boost ...

Scientists have uncovered a hidden molecular switch that may control how the brain ages. A new study from the Leibniz Institute on Aging reveals how a process called ubiquitylation rewrites the ...

Transcription and translation are processes a cell uses to make all proteins the body needs to function from information stored in the sequence of bases in DNA. The four bases (C, A, T/U, and G in the ...

Solving puzzles experimentally is enjoyable for many researchers. However, there are some puzzles that force even the best puzzlers to nominate modeling over experimental approaches to help decipher ...

Holly has a degree in Medical Biochemistry from the University of Leicester. Her scientific interests include genomics, personalized medicine, and bioethics.View full profile Holly has a degree in ...

AI2 Incubator’s Jenny Cronin (left), interviews David Baker, director of the University of Washington’s Institute for Protein Design. (GeekWire Photo / Charlotte Schubert) The Institute for Protein ...