Steven McKnight and Dirk Görlich received the Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award for their work on the role of ...

Spatial proteomics is the study of the spatial distribution of the proteins within cells and tissues. The subcellular localization of proteins is intrinsic to cellular function, making spatial ...

Immunologists from the Institute have been the first to uncover a role for a family of RNA binding proteins in the function ...

Essentially all cells in an organism's body have the same genetic blueprint, or genome, but the set of genes that are ...

The process of brain cell fusion has been recently implicated in the progression of central nervous system (CNS) viral ...

Biology and quantum physics often seem like they belong to separate worlds. Living cells function in warm, noisy environments, full of constant motion, while quantum technologies usually need ...

PJ Koopmans' curiosity led him to the cell and molecular biology graduate program at the U of A, where he now investigates the molecular mechanisms that regulate muscle mass and exercise adaptations.