Proteins are the infinitely varied chemicals that make cells work, and science has a pretty good idea how they are made. But ...

A new study reveals that blocking ribosomal RNA production rewires cancer cell behavior and could help treat genetically ...

Harnessing the power of a metabolite produced in the kidneys and absorbed from certain foods can mimic the health benefits ...

A team of researchers is tapping into the ocean’s vast body of free-floating environmental DNA to catch blooms before they ...

Proteins are the infinitely varied chemicals that make cells work, and science has a pretty good idea how they are made. But a critical aspect ...

Michelle Marder, a University of Rhode Island Ph.D. student originally from Lynnfield, is one of two students, with Kate Remy, to be awarded with a graduate fellowship from the NASA Rhode Island Space ...

Researchers have recovered and sequenced Mycobacterium lepromatosis genomes from 4,000-year-old human remains in Chile, ...

DNA recombination is the exchange of DNA strands to produce new nucleotide sequence arrangements. Recombination occurs typically, though not exclusively, between regions of similar sequence by ...

Ribosomal proteins are proteins that constitute ribosomes. Ribosomal proteins may be structurally important within the ribosome, for instance in interacting with the RNA component (rRNA), and may ...