Image: High-resolution structure of the human protein complex SIN3B. Credit: Wan, Muhammad et al 2023. Researchers have revealed, at high-resolution, the structure of a human protein complex named ...

In a new study, published today (12 July) in Nature, researchers have produced the most detailed and comprehensive human Heart Cell Atlas to date, including the specialized tissue of the cardiac ...

Open any introductory biology textbook, and you'll see a familiar diagram: A blobby-looking cell filled with brightly colored structures – the inner machinery that makes the cell tick. Cell biologists ...

Researchers at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology and the University of Otago have resolved the full three-dimensional structure of bacteriophage Bas63 using cryogenic electron ...

Cancer cells are more dependent on a cellular garbage disposal unit -- the proteasome -- than healthy cells, and cancer therapies take advantage of this dependency. Scientists have determined the ...

Cody Cottier is a freelance journalist for Discover Magazine, who frequently covers new scientific studies about animal behavior, human evolution, consciousness, astrophysics, and the environment.

Scientists from Oxford's Radcliffe Department of Medicine have achieved the most detailed view yet of how DNA folds and ...