Aging, neurological diseases and our bodies' stress response are all linked to the tiny power plants inside each cell known ...

The enzyme PI3K plays a critical role in cell migration. Scientists have long understood this function. But researchers have recently unveiled that a subunit of this enzyme also has the ability to ...

Most drugs operate via the membranes that surround the body's cells. A study by researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden has now mapped the structure and mechanism of MGST2, a membrane enzyme ...

Human stem cells can differentiate into any human cell. But the process of dedifferentiation, essentially differentiation in reverse, is implicated in several diseases. Now researchers have uncovered ...

A research team led by Prof. Wang Yi and Wei Haiming from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), in ...

Researchers discovered the 3D structure and mode of action of DGAT1, the enzyme that synthesizes triglycerides. Doctors regularly warn their patients that having high levels of triglycerides, a major ...

Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine and collaborating institutions report in the journal Nature Communications how a mutation in the enzyme SKD3 can cause a form of a genetic disease known as ...

Researchers have identified the mechanism by which a common genetic mutation causes an "aldehyde storm" and increases liver ...