One small compartment inside the nucleus has come into focus with regards to aging: the nucleolus. Its main job is simple and ...

Chronic alcohol consumption disrupts the blood-brain barrier, but Faecalibacterium prausnitzii shows promise in repairing ...

Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative," wrote H. G. Wells. This principle - that survival requires change - was mastered ...

A single iron-sulfur building block directly determines whether ribosomes—the protein factories of our cells—work smoothly or ...

Frozen in time, RNA cellular snapshots can reveal the health, diet, and behaviors of extinct animals at time of death. In A ...

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Translocation: The ribosome moves one codon down the mRNA. The tRNA in the A site moves to the P site, the tRNA in the P site ...

Protection of Genetic Material: The nuclear envelope shields the DNA from the mechanical and chemical stresses of the ...

The countdown to aging starts the moment an individual is born and is something that cannot be stopped, but it can be slowed.

Hyperthermophilic archaea are true survival experts. They thrive in boiling hot springs and deep-sea vents—environments ...

Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) exhibits a degree of resistance to mutagenesis under genotoxic stress, and this study on the mitochondrial Transcription Factor A (TFAM) presents valuable data concerning the ...

Department of Cell and Tissue Biology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, United States ...