Representation how separase recognizes the cohesin subunit SCC1 before chromosome segregation occurs. Illustration Credit: © Margot Riggi Ce...

Lukas Kenner, visiting professor at the Department of Molecular Biology. Photo Credit: Medizinische Universität Wien A hormone produced in t...

Legumes are a diverse group of plants from the Fabaceae family, including beans, peas, lentils, and peanuts, that grow in pods. They are a h...

The "Chemical Messenger" The Endocrine System and Chemical Communication Image Credit: Scientific Frontline The Silent Orchestrato...

New research reveals a drug developed by scientists at Oregon Health & Science University may develop into a new treatment for an especi...

From left to right, Tania Quesada-López, Francesc Villarroya, Albert Blasco-Roset, Marta Giralt, Alberto Mestres-Arenas, Joan Villarroya, Al...

Above, from left to right, Pilar Montanyà-Vallugera, José Luis Torbado-Gardeazábal, Inés Montoya-Novoa and Montse Abella-Monleón. Below, fro...

MIT experiments have revealed the existence of “microcompartments,” shown in yellow, within the 3D structure of the genome. These compartmen...

Subcellular lipid distributions (magenta) in mitochondria (green) revealed using FACES and super-resolution structure illuminated microscopy...

Joram Waititu and Kemal Avican working together in the Avican Lab at the Department of Molecular Biology, Umeå University. Photo Credit: Gab...

Water molecules are a driving force in the formation of molecular bonds, such as in proteins. Image Credit: INT, KIT Water is everywhere – i...

The sequencing of the genomes of a spider from the mainland (Dysdera catalonica, left) and one from the Canary Islands (Dysdera tilosensis, ...

For decades, it was widely accepted that neurons relied exclusively on glucose to fuel their functions in the brain. This is not the case. P...

A 3D tumor vessel-on-a-chip model, showing pancreatic cancer cells (green) invading an engineered blood vessel (red) by breaking down the va...

  Photo Credit:  Sasin Tipchai In a mouse model of liver transplantation, UCLA researchers have identified proteins that act as “protective ...

Purdue University researcher John Tesmer is deciphering an intricate cell signaling system critical to immune response.  Photo Credit: Alish...

Volodymyr M. Korkhov (left) and Richard Kammerer of the Center for Life Sciences at PSI have made important advances towards understanding h...

A microscope image of lung cancer cells (purple) containing the activated form of a metabolic enzyme called GUK1 (brown) that supports cance...

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Quality control during splicing: When an error in the precursor mRNA is detected, the spliceosome is blocked, the recruited control factors ...