RNA-based therapeutics use RNA as a blueprint that enables cells to produce specific proteins—including proteins that can ...

Why do some joints remain chronically inflamed in osteoarthritis and other rheumatic diseases? Researchers have taken an ...

As proteins are made in a cell, they are folded into the 3-D structure that allows them to work, but sometimes this process ...

An engineered protein turns off the kind of immune cells most likely to damage tissue as part of type-1 diabetes, hepatitis, multiple sclerosis, shows a new study in mice. In these autoimmune diseases ...

Research published in the journal Science illuminates a "missing piece" in the biological understanding of profound autism ...

Keeping a qubit stable is difficult enough, even in an ideal environment. Now, researchers have figured out how to make a protein behave like a qubit in a living cell. Fluorescent proteins were used ...