Fifty years since its discovery, scientists have finally worked out how a molecular machine found in mitochondria, the 'powerhouses' of our cells, allows us to make the fuel we need from sugars, a ...

After more than five decades of mystery, scientists have finally unveiled the detailed structure and function of a ...

During morphogenesis—the process by which living organisms take shape—cells collectively position themselves in specific ways ...

Allison McClure, Ph.D., is an assistant professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics at the CU School ...

Beneath the surface of the tiny, see-through worm Caenorhabditis elegans, researchers have found new clues about how certain ...

DNA strand displacement circuits are inching closer to becoming cellular machines. Scientists are finding ways to make these programmable nanodevices stable and functional inside living cells. If ...

Scientists have attempted to map the human cell since the first microscope was invented more than 400 years ago. But many ...

Proteins are the molecular building blocks and engines of the cell, and are involved in practically all life processes. Researchers at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry investigate the ...

U.S. officials accidentally included The Atlantic‘s editor-in-chief in a Signal group chat discussing military strikes in Yemen. This incident, now dubbed “SignalGate,” has ignited a ...