Researchers have achieved the most detailed view yet of how DNA folds and functions inside living cells, revealing the physical structures that ...

Evo’s success wasn’t limited to proteins. When they tested a different toxin that had an RNA-based inhibitor, the system ...

A gene is a fundamental unit of heredity, consisting of a specific sequence of DNA that encodes the instructions for making a particular protein or set of proteins. Genes are passed down from parents ...

Scientists at Penn State University will reveal in the 29 March 2007 issue of the journal Nature the first complete high-resolution map of important structures that control how genes are packaged and ...

Scientists at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital and Northwestern University identified a previously unknown treatment ...

This release is also available in Chinese on EurekAlert! Chinese. Over the past decades, researchers seeking to understand molecular mechanisms underlying various diseases, notably cancer, have taken ...

Cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) is rapidly evolving to be the primary tool for structure determination of membrane proteins. However, generation of high quality membrane protein for structural ...