The microbe Pyrodictium abyssi is an archaeon—a member of what's known as the third domain of life—and an extremophile. It ...

We have long struggled to determine how the first living organisms on Earth came together. Now, surprising evidence hints ...

Researchers have identified how a single mutation in the GPX4 enzyme causes neurons to undergo ferroptosis, leading to severe early-onset dementia.

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 ...

New research published in Nature Communications has linked a normal cellular process to an accumulation of DNA mutations in ...

Why do nerve cells die in dementia - and can this process be slowed down? Researchers from the Technical University of Munich ...

Inside every human cell, six feet of DNA folds into a nucleus that is only a few micrometers wide, yet still manages to switch genes on and off with exquisite precision. The latest work on ...

With the advent of AI-powered protein design tools, protein-based therapeutics may no longer be constrained by the limits imposed by natural selection.

Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the sixth leading cause of cancer-related mortality worldwide.1 Despite therapeutic ...

It’s easy to get lost in the noise of headlines and breaking alerts, but sometimes reality is more surprising than anything ...

UCLA scientists have characterized the structure and function of a key survival protein in breast cancer cells that helps ...