Cells manage a wide range of functions in their tiny package — growing, moving, housekeeping, and so on — and most of those functions require energy. But how do cells get this energy in the first ...

Built from thickets of glucose, galactose, mannose and more, the glycome plays key roles in cell communication, immunity and ...

CRISPRgenee is a new method that combines gene silencing and cutting to improve loss-of-function studies in human cells. (Nanowerk News) The 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded for the ...

A metabolic enzyme studied for over seven decades has a hidden second function – it can unwind RNA and promote cell cycle progression, an additional function beyond its role in energy production, ...

What we have found is that one of its subunits, Pfk2, also functions as an RNA regulator that helps to coordinate when cells divide. "This is not about energy production—we propose that the enzyme ...