For the Liu Lab, necessity is truly the mother of invention. The researchers were examining how the 3D organization of the ...

Scientists have finally captured footage of the microscopic machinery that allows our cells to copy DNA—a fundamental process ...

In the pursuit of understanding the pathogenic expression mechanisms of bacteria and the advancements in biofoundry ...

The small study in patients with a rare disorder that causes liver and lung damage showed the potential for precisely ...

With the long-term goal of creating living cells from non-living components, scientists in the field of synthetic biology work with RNA origami. This tool uses the multifunctionality of the natural ...

Imagine a world where we could predict the behavior of life just by analyzing a sequence of letters. This is not science ...

Radiation therapy is a powerful tool for fighting cancer, but it comes with painful side effects. About 60% of cancer ...

In addition to exporting materials out of the nucleus, the protein, called Exportin-1 (also called Xpo1 or Crm1), seems to play a role in promoting gene transcription, the process that creates RNA ...

The strangely adorable and resilient tardigrade, or water bear, just might hold the key to making cancer treatment a lot more (water-) bearable. That’s because a team of researchers just found ...

Targeted inhibition of a "signal jammer" protein may improve how tumors respond to immunotherapy. Published today in Nature, a new study demonstrates how some cancer cells use the protein ...

Johns Hopkins Medicine laboratory scientists say they have developed a potential new way to treat a variety of rare genetic ...