The enzyme RNA polymerase II transcribes genes into messenger RNA. This process is guided by modifications to the enzyme's "tail" called phosphorylation patterns. Scientists at St. Jude Children's ...

Angelica Facoetti explains five facts accelerator physicists need to know about radiobiology to work at the cutting edge of ...

Type 1 diabetes is caused by an insufficient production of the hormone insulin by cells in the pancreas called beta cells and estimated to affect 9.5 million people worldwide.

Leading scientists and bioethicists are urging the creation of an international oversight body to monitor advances in human ...

Scientists have discovered that human stomach cells can be genetically reprogrammed to act like pancreatic beta cells and produce insulin. This approach could one day help people with Type 1 diabetes ...

A research team led by Professor Wang Peng from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, ...

Native Infrared Spectroscopy spectroscopy produces high-resolution molecular maps of live cells and cell organelles.

Chloroplasts—the "light power plants" of plant cells—are increasingly the focus of synthetic biology. These organelles house ...

Researchers at the University of Cologne have found that a particular dietary amino acid enhances cellular energy, thereby ...

Researchers open up plant chloroplasts for high-throughput screening for the first time, enabling faster development of more ...