Today's nearly $70 billion U.S. biofuels economy is powered by two technology toolboxes. Biochemical technologies—used to produce around 17 billion gallons of ethanol annually—leverage microorganisms ...

WEHI researchers have led a major global effort to create the first authoritative atlas for a class of enzymes that regulate almost every cellular process in the human body. Published in Cell, the ...

Our reliance on these molecules is incredible.

In neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's or Parkinson's, proteins accumulate in the body's cells, fold incorrectly and clump together to form larger aggregates. Normally, cells are able to ...

Microtubules, the dynamic filaments that form the cell's internal scaffolding, have long been viewed as mere passive ...

Researchers at Helmholtz Munich, the Technical University of Munich and the LMU University Hospital Munich uncovered a mechanism that protects nerve cells from premature cell death, known as ...

Immunotherapies have transformed cancer treatment by helping the immune system recognize and attack tumors. They work for ...

Study identifies a cell-specific pathway that enables immune cells to mature, survive and maintain tissue health throughout the body The research, funded in part by the National Institutes of Health ...

A metabolic enzyme found in the support cells surrounding tumors may hold the key to predicting which cancer patients will ...