When a cell receives a message from outside, it generates a molecule called cyclic AMP (cAMP) to relay this message. To ...

UCSF’s Program in Craniofacial Biology (PCB) brings together researchers to study the cellular and molecular mechanisms ...

Dynamin is a protein that plays a central role in endocytosis—the process where cells internalize substances by wrapping them in cell membrane vesicles. For a vesicle to detach, the neck of the ...

Fusion oncoproteins arise when a gene fuses with another gene and acquires new abilities. Such abilities can include the ...

Zhang and an international team of collaborators published findings November 26, 2025, in the Proceedings of the National ...

The tiny pantheon known as the Asgard archaea bear traits that hint at how plants, animals and fungi emerged on Earth.

Researchers discovered that a long-misunderstood protein plays a key role in helping chromosomes latch onto the right “tracks ...

Every face is unique. Genetics helps to determine our features, but sometimes genes have errors, which, in early fetal development, can result in ...

Some brain disorders are straightforward, such as the direct frontal lobe assault of a concussion or traumatic brain injury.

A machine learning-based resource developed at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital predicts which intrinsically disordered regions can drive the formation of biomolecular condensates and links those ...