Discover PINK1 structure offers new hope for Parkinson’s disease treatment by revealing its mitochondrial interactions and ...

With the long-term goal of creating living cells from non-living components, scientists in the field of synthetic biology work with RNA origami. This tool uses the multifunctionality of the natural ...

A previously unknown protein in a family of bacteria found in soil and the human gut microbiome has been discovered—which ...

Scaling up biohybrid robots has been difficult due to the weak contractile force of lab-grown muscles, the risk of necrosis in thick muscle tissues, and the challenge of integrating biological ...

Only a few universities nationwide, including the University of Southern California and Harvard, offer courses that allow ...

UPF researchers have led the creation of a computational simulator that is unique in the world to study one of the causes of ...

Scientists at MIT have created a new kind of artificial muscle that can flex and move in multiple directions, much like real ...

With clinical trials results trickling in, “antiaging” drugs that clear away senescent cells are proving to be promising — ...

Cambridge University researchers have uncovered evidence that two distinct populations of ancient hominins, separated for ...

Researchers have made a huge leap forward in the fight against Parkinson's disease, solving a decades-long mystery. In a major breakthrough, they have been able to see the human PINK1 protein and how ...

SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for COVID-19, infects cells by binding its spike protein to angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) receptors.