Just like in yeast and animal cells, vacuoles in plants are responsible for breaking down unwanted cellular components. At ...

Thousands of previously undescribed protein–metabolite interactions have been mapped by analysing outbred mice.

Before a chain of amino acids can become an active and useful protein, it must be processed and folded into the appropriate ...

Scientists discovered a role played by ribosomes during the folding of new proteins in cells. Scientists at UCL have discovered a novel role played by ribosomes during the folding of new proteins in ...

Cancer cells are relentless in their quest to grow and divide, often rewiring their metabolism and modifying RNA to stay one ...

A new paper published today in Cell highlights how researchers have leveraged AI-based computational protein design to create a novel synthetic ligand that activates the Notch signaling pathway, a key ...

“Together, these findings confirm that proteostasis inhibition can slow RMS growth and suggest that targeting compensatory network components might yield synergistic outcomes” “Together, these ...

California [US], October 2 (ANI): Cancer cells are relentless in their drive to expand and divide, frequently reprogramming ...

In the past decade, there has been significant interest in studying the expression of our genetic code down to the level of single cells, to identify the functions and activities of any cell through ...

Chemotherapy kills cancer cells. But the way these cells die appears to be different than previously understood. Researchers have now uncovered a completely new way in which cancer cells die: due to ...

Suppressing a transcription factor induced energy burning in fat cells, offering therapeutic targets to treat obesity and metabolic diseases. When the researchers monitored the metabolic rates of the ...