An international collaborative research team, including scientists from UQ's Queensland Brain Institute (QBI), has discovered a novel mechanism underlying memory involving rapid changes in a specific ...

Scientists from the Institute of Integrated Cellular and Material Sciences at Kyoto University, together with colleagues, ...

Membrane reshaping and channel formation often emerge from the coordinated interplay between membranes and their associated proteins. Reconstituting such integrated behaviors in synthetic systems ...

Caltech researchers have identified a novel chemical reaction that could explain the formation of the building blocks of DNA and RNA, the molecules that encode all of life's functions. The work is an ...

Synapsis, the physical bridging of two broken DNA ends, is a critical step in non-homologous DNA end joining (NHEJ), the primary pathway for repairing DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs) in vertebrates.

Scientists have found that twisting structures in DNA long mistaken for knots are actually something else entirely. Inside cells, DNA gets twisted, copied, and pulled apart. The twists can influence ...

Newborn nerve cells must squeeze through crowded, narrow spaces—through dense tissue, past other cells, and between fibers—to ...

Silicon chips have powered computing for half a century. Increasingly, they are also becoming platforms to read and ...

In a way, sequencing DNA is very simple: There's a molecule, you look at it, and you write down what you find. You'd think it would be easy—and, for any one letter in the sequence, it is. The problem ...

Could a viral infection you experience today cause mental health disorders for generations of your descendants? Absolutely.