In the earliest phase of creating human proteins, the protein complex NAC performs an essential task by starting the first ...

During a session hosted by the Division of Biochemistry and Chemical Biology (BIOL), Wei Sun, a chemical biologist at ...

Ginkgo Bioworks Holdings (DNA) announced on Thursday that, in collaboration with Microsoft (MSFT)-backed OpenAI (OPENAI), it has designed an AI system that can lower costs in cell-free protein ...

Lindsey DeSoto, RD, is a nutrition writer, medical reviewer, and registered dietitian who helps clients improve their diet for health-related reasons. Her writing covers a variety of topics, including ...

Unrepaired DNA-protein crosslinks (DPCs) – highly toxic tangles of protein and DNA – cause a process that leads to premature aging and embryonic lethality in mice. The findings reveal a previously ...

Real-World Plasma Thymidine Kinase Activity in High-Risk and Metastatic Hormone Receptor–Positive, Human Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor 2–Negative Breast Cancer Treated With Cyclin-Dependent Kinase ...

Protein is a hot topic in the nutrition world, especially with the release of the 2026-2030 U.S. Dietary Guidelines. As a dietitian, I’m often asked how much protein people need daily. The answer ...

WIRED spoke with DeepMind’s Pushmeet Kohli about the recent past—and promising future—of the Nobel Prize-winning research project that changed biology and chemistry forever. To understand what the ...

Researchers at ETH Zurich recently explained the role of a molecular complex that orchestrates the production of proteins in our cells. They now show that this complex also controls the processing of ...

Tyler J. Woodward receives support through the National Institute of General Medical Sciences. In 2016, researchers uncovered one of the tardigrade’s secrets: a gene with a sequence unlike any other ...

Julia Ries Wexler is a writer focusing on all things health and wellness. She has over 10 years of experience in health journalism, and though she has written about pretty much every health topic ...

A study on how aging impacts the brain in killifish has found that getting old selectively impairs the production of some key DNA- and RNA-binding proteins. And this change contributes to hallmarks of ...