Leiden researchers, led by Sebastian Pomplun, have developed a new method to screen hundreds of thousands of molecules for ...

How does the cell convert DNA into working proteins? The process of translation can be seen as the decoding of instructions for making proteins, involving mRNA in transcription as well as tRNA. But ...

People looking to lose weight and lower their blood sugar may someday be able to get a single injection that turns their ...

Tardigrades make a unique damage suppressor protein that researchers are working to harness for medicine, space, agriculture, ...

Sections of DNA once dismissed as dormant and useless could in fact be recruited to fight certain types of drug-resistant ...

Learn how tardigrades are able to tolerate extreme radiation with a unique protein that unwinds their DNA.

Michael Buck, PhD, professor of biochemistry in the Jacobs School, recently received NIH funding to explore how molecular readers of DNA access and activate seemingly hidden genes.

Learn more about bowhead whales and how they routinely see out their 200th birthday — and this DNA-repair protein might just ...

An international research team has determined the first high-resolution structures of the herpes simplex virus origin-binding ...

Researchers at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory found that Dicer, an ancient RNA-cutting protein shared by humans and yeast, ...