How does the ER prevent misfolded proteins? Researchers identify the SLC33A1 transporter as a critical glutathione regulator for protein quality control.

In the past several years, Rockefeller University's Kivanç Birsoy and his team in the Laboratory of Metabolic Regulation and ...

Rockefeller researchers previously discovered several new important tasks that the antioxidant glutathione manages throughout the body. Now they’ve found that glutathione maintains the smooth ...

In 2011, The Scientist featured Bergmann’s early work on stomata development. She now uses new omics tools to explore the ...

As we age, stem cells responsible for maintaining our blood and immune systems gradually lose their resilience, but why this happens has remained unclear. A novel study from Japan and the US turns the ...

Their findings, recently reported in the journal Nature, overturn longstanding assumptions in developmental biology and could ...

Dozens of new discoveries reveal that defenses evolved by bacteria and viruses billions of years ago still define our own ...

Synthetic biologists were tantalized by the idea of making mirror images of microbes. Then things got complicated.

By examining genetic clues that linger in adult cells, scientists have now gained surprising insights into the developmental ...

When do peripheral nerves develop? Researchers used "mosaic barcodes" to prove that neural crest cells commit to their ...

Scientists have discovered a hidden partnership between ancient microbes that may explain how complex life first evolved on ...

Clues to the genetic code’s origin may be hidden in tiny protein fragments, revealing a synchronized and highly structured ...