Many diseases are driven by proteins interacting with each other inside cells. But blocking these interactions with drugs is ...

The rods and cones in your eyes are responsible for helping you see, but what is responsible for helping them? Retinal pigment epithelium cells are their caretakers, but environmental, genetic and ...

Scientists identified phosphatidylcholine loss as a key driver of mitochondrial aging and showed that restoring it can ...

Researchers have developed a type of peptides that can enter cells and block protein interactions considered difficult to ...

Membrane-permeable cyclic peptide that inhibits the intracellular Keap1-Nrf2 protein-protein interaction. Credit: Christian ...

Within the past decade, biologists have discovered that one strategy cells use to keep their contents organized is a ...

Tissue engineers have developed a model to mimic the effects of aging to improve prevention and treatment of age-related ...

Larson, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at RPI and lead corresponding author of the study ...

Antibiotic resistance continues to push modern medicine into dangerous territory. In hospitals around the world, infections ...

Two local young STEM students recently teamed up to enter the international Biomimicry Youth Design Challenge, researching ...

The microbe Haloarcula marismortui swims by growing a unique, reinforced outer sheath around its tail, providing essential ...