A research team has identified an essential mechanism in fat cells (adipocytes) that enables them to enlarge safely to store ...

Dynamic, reversible modifications of DNA and RNA regulate how genes are expressed and transcribed, which can influence ...

University of Chicago scientists have expanded our understanding of snoRNAs, discovering their extensive influence on ...

A new approach for identifying new cellular RNA targets of snoRNAs uncovered thousands of previously unknown targets ...

Last year, Coskun and his team introduced a new study in “single cell spatial metabolomics,” which explores the distribution ...

Scientists have unveiled a new tool for studying the highly variable traits that allow malaria parasites to stick to red ...

Climate change is shifting the seasons, pushing crop plants to their limits. For example, sudden frost episodes in late ...

Cells are surrounded by a membrane - the plasma membrane - which acts as a physical barrier but must also be malleable. These properties are endowed by the constituent components of membranes - lipids ...

To build proteins, the cell makes a copy of DNA, called mRNA. Then, another molecule called a ribosome reads the mRNA, translating it into protein. But this step has been a visual mystery: scientists ...