Can the bend of a banana give us insight into cancer? What does the shape of a rice grain have to do with infertility? The ...

How do biological cells join forces to form a structure? In her Ph.D. research, Daphne Nesenberend uses mathematics to show ...

Cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) has profoundly reshaped our understanding of biomolecular structures by allowing the direct imaging of macromolecules in near-native states. This technique, which ...

Yuan He aims to understand how cells read and repair their genomes. His research encompasses two primary areas: transcription, in which genetic information is copied from DNA into messenger RNA, and ...

Barry Stoddard is a structural biologist. His research focuses on revealing the three-dimensional structures of proteins and modifying them to help treat or cure diseases like cancer, cystic fibrosis, ...

Structural biology is used to understand the three-dimensional shape of biological molecules and how their shape enables them to function both inside and outside of cells. Furthermore, the ...

Researchers have identified a new type of blood-based biomarker test for Alzheimer's disease that measures structural changes in proteins, providing more information on the underlying biology of the ...

Krishna Ella emphasizes AI's transformative potential in biology, predicting unprecedented advancements and commercial shifts ...

Vitamin B 1, also known as thiamine, is essential for the survival of our cells. The human body can't produce it, but we can maintain healthy levels of this vitamin by eating foods like salmon, ...

In a redeeming development for one of nature’s most universally denounced pests, researchers from McGill and Drexel Universities have discovered that mosquito stingers might one day be used for ...