Cells manage a wide range of functions in their tiny package — growing, moving, housekeeping, and so on — and most of those functions require energy. But how do cells get this energy in the first ...

Creating artificial systems that mimic the functioning of cells is one of the goals of what is known as synthetic biology.

CRISPRgenee is a new method that combines gene silencing and cutting to improve loss-of-function studies in human cells. (Nanowerk News) The 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded for the ...

Stepping away from its billions-of-years-old role as a genetic blueprint, DNA is now embarking on a new journey as an active ...

What we have found is that one of its subunits, Pfk2, also functions as an RNA regulator that helps to coordinate when cells divide. "This is not about energy production—we propose that the enzyme ...

The brain is the most complex organ in the human body. Different parts of the brain perform a variety of functions, all of ...

TalTech scientists in collaboration with researchers from Rockefeller University have described a mechanism that acts like a ...