While seeking to unravel how marine algae create their chemically complex toxins, scientists at UC San Diego's Scripps Institution of…
While smell plays a considerable role in the social interactions of humans -- for instance, signaling fear or generating closeness…
Scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory have discovered that a protein responsible for the synthesis…
Rice University's Peter Wolynes and his research team have unveiled a breakthrough in understanding how specific genetic sequences, known as…
A pair of proteins, YAP and TAZ, has been identified as conductors of bone development in the womb and could…
In a landmark study led by the University of Maryland School of Medicine, researchers discovered for the first time that…
A protein in the immune system programmed to protect the body from fungal infections is also responsible for exacerbating the…
Yeast cells are widely used to study G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs), a large group of cell surface proteins in humans.…