Vimentin is a type III intermediate filament (IF) protein normally expressed in cells that develop into connective tissue, ...

The root causes of most forms of Alzheimer's disease largely remain a mystery. Now, researchers have revealed a new piece of ...

Synthetic biologists from Yale were able to re-write the genetic code of an organism—a novel genomically recoded organism ...

Synthetic biologists from Yale were recode the genetic code of an organism, a novel genomically recoded organism (GRO) with ...

When NASA launched a spacecraft to an asteroid, scientists patiently waited for their chance to look at bits of the space ...

New research has found that changes to the intermediate filament (IF) protein, vimentin, were found to promote tumor growth.

Proteins' amino-acid sequences appear to guide their access to blob-like aggregates involved in many cell processes ...

Scientists have discovered that some tiny segments of RNA thought to be junk instead have a functional role in suppressing production of certain messenger RNAs and appear to help cells respond to ...

Genetic engineering deployed to insert gene for human insulin into a bacterium, thus harnessing the substance for widespread ...

Synthetic biologists from Yale were able to re-write the genetic code of an organism — a novel genomically recoded organism ...