Despite its compact structure—composed of only three amino acids—this endogenous tripeptide has been repeatedly situated at ...

Fungicides are similar to the drugs given to patients. So the fungus becomes resistant to the fungicide and, at the same time ...

Ajit Prakash is a postdoctoral researcher in biochemist Sharon Campbell’s group at the University of North Carolina at Chapel ...

New experiments reveal possible η′-mesic nuclei, offering evidence that particle masses shift inside nuclear matter and ...

A graphic of a purple and magenta Cas9 protein, which is a somewhat round, but uneven, ball, bound to a yellow and orange ...

After a decade-long quest to fill a major gap in basic biology, UChicago scientists have built a complete map of how cells ...

Before a cell can divide, it has to precisely duplicate its entire genetic information. However, the DNA in the cell exists as part of a DNA-protein complex known as chromatin. For this purpose, the ...

Professor Bo Liu, Department of Plant Biology, holds an Arabidopsis plant while Professor Jawdat Al-Bassam, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, holds a model of the augmin protein complex.

Before cells can divide by mitosis, they first need to replicate all of their chromosomes, so that each of the daughter cells can receive a full set of genetic material. Scientists have until now ...

For decades, biology textbooks have told us that axons – the threadlike extensions of nerve cells – are smooth, cylindrical tubes. These axons are responsible for ferrying messages between neurons at ...

Bispecific T cell engagers (TcEs) are immunotherapeutic drugs that trigger the destruction of cancer cells by linking T cells to cancer cells through specific surface molecules (antigens). We designed ...