A protein tied to ALS and dementia may have a much bigger role in disease than scientists realized. Researchers found that ...

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The Iñupiat people of Alaska have long said that bowhead whales live two human lifetimes. That oral knowledge turned out to ...

A protein found in bowhead whales, one of the longest-living mammals on Earth, could help improve how human cells repair DNA, ...

While headlines often suggest that a “whale protein” could allow humans to live for 200 years, experts say the reality is far ...

A newly identified cellular system monitors subtle variations in genetic coding, hinting at a hidden level of control over ...

Researchers have revealed how bacteria precisely control the genes that trigger cell division. The study shows that the MraZ ...

Proteins, one of the smallest building blocks of life on Earth, hold promise for answering some of biology's biggest ...

Discover how CRISPR genome editing is revolutionizing medicine. Learn the science of Cas9, current clinical trials, and the ...

A team of researchers has built a new protein sequencing workflow that pairs mirror proteases with deep learning software to read peptide sequences with far greater accuracy than previous methods.

A protein long studied for its role in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and frontotemporal dementia now appears to serve a ...

Treatments that target a fragment of the mutant protein that causes Huntington's disease might be more effective than ...