A previously unknown type of DNA damage in the mitochondria, the tiny power plants inside our cells, could shed light on how our bodies sense and respond to stress. The findings of the UC ...

Lipid membranes, which form the outer layer of cells, can be engineered to influence cellular functions. For example, adjusting the permeability of the membrane can improve drug delivery. Adding ...

AI-designed proteins improved targeted DNA insertion in cultured cells, with one variant doubling the performance of an ...

Researchers in Adelaide and Singapore have uncovered new clues as to why some people with chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) respond better to treatment than others, finding that mitochondrial function in ...

In prokaryotic cells, transcription (DNA to mRNA) and translation (mRNA to protein) are so closely linked that translation ...

A protein that's essential to every cell's ability to turn off unnecessary genes is well known for its key function of ...

For the first time, researchers have sequenced mitochondrial DNA from individual vulnerable brainstem neurons in Parkinson's ...

Credit: Kyle O'Connor Imagine tracing every cell in a body back to its first ancestor: the fertilized egg. For decades, ...

Scientists have traced the development of a mouse embryo from its first two cells to the formation of organs, using a ...

Every cell in your body has spent its entire existence under gravity’s pull. Inside each of them, roughly two meters of DNA ...

A new iScience study shows that the error-prone polymerase Pol ι is induced in BRCA2-deficient mammary epithelial cells, ...

Death does not make DNA disappear. Long after the heart has stopped and the brain has lost function, genetic material can remain inside cells and tissues. What changes is the environment around it: ...