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

Cells are enveloped by a lipid membrane that gives them structure and provides a barrier between the cell and its environment.

Researchers have identified a molecular mechanism that helps prevent common skin cancers from becoming aggressive and metastatic. The study, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of ...

If scientists could shrink themselves to microscopic size and take a journey through the human body—like the submarine crew ...

Mitochondria don’t just generate energy—they also carefully organize their own DNA in a surprisingly elegant way. Scientists have discovered that a long-overlooked phenomenon called “mitochondrial ...

Temporarily disabling a protein complex that organizes DNA into loops inside the cell's nucleus drastically disrupted 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.

Study finds CRISPR/Cas gene editing causes “chromatin fatigue” – another surprise mechanism by which it can produce unwanted changes in gene function. Report: Claire Robinson and Prof Michael Antoniou ...

How are sugars attached to proteins? Sugars are commonly attached to proteins in a process called glycosylation. This fascinating modification involves linking sugar molecules to specific amino acids ...