Changes to the intermediate filament (IF) protein, vimentin, were found to promote tumor growth by increasing cancer stemness in an oestrogen independent manner. Targeting vimentin and/or the long ...

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 ...

Short chains of amino acids can form drug delivery nanoparticles and boost the properties of potential medicines ...

Synthetic biologists from Yale were able to re-write the genetic code of an organism - a novel genomically recoded organism (GRO) with one stop codon - using a cellular platform that they developed ...

For each structural strain of tau fibrils, they identified amino acids without which the strain cannot form its signature ...

There are 20 amino acids that create the proteins required for life on our planet — and scientists have now found exactly 14 ...

The asteroid Bennu, visited by a NASA robotic probe five years ago, contained many of the basic building blocks for life as ...

By using optically active liquid crystals as reaction sites, researchers at University of Tsukuba have successfully achieved ...

Laboratory of Soft Matter Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China Laboratory of Soft Matter ...