Researchers at the Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Karolinska Institutet have made a major discovery in how human ...

The Hamilton scientists were able to map a CWD prion, the misfolded protein that causes the deadly brain disease, to the near-atomic level.

Scientists have long wondered how the first cell membranes formed from the primordial soup—a new study offers up a recipe.

Our prior conceptions of the molecular basis of life are embodied in the classical ... for discoveries related to cracking ...

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So-called Alu elements are repetitive DNA sequences that can generate bits of RNA, a molecular cousin of DNA ... thereby changing the final code for and structure of the resulting protein. Related: 10 ...

When researchers led by Sjors Scheres and Michel Goedert at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, U.K., determined the shape of the fibrils, Jakob’s team realized the structure might .

Biosensors play a key role in medical research and diagnostics. At present, however, they generally have to be specially developed for each application. A team led by LMU chemist Philip Tinnefeld has ...

“In a cell, it’s positively charged and thus can form hydrogen bonds or other chemical interactions ... insights about CMT2’s ...