Speaking to the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, the study’s author Professor David Komander said: “Our ...

Neuroblastomas are the most common cancer in infants, with about 700–800 diagnoses per year in the US, according to the American Cancer Society. Some of the most high-risk cases are driven by elevated ...

Scientists at deCODE genetics, a subsidiary of Amgen, reveal today in Nature Genetics associations between bipolar disorder and rare loss-of-function variants in two genes.

Scientists at deCODE genetics/Amgen have identified associations between bipolar disorder and rare loss-of-function variants ...

Ubiquitin marks proteins for degradation, whereby ubiquitin molecules can be combined in different types and numbers forming ...

Researchers at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry (MPIB) have developed the new UbiREAD technology to decode the various combinations of ubiquitin molecules – the ubiquitin code – which ...

The first RIPTAC has just hit the clinic. Learn about this new technology that is being developed by Halda Therapeutics.

WEHI researchers have solved a decades-long mystery by determining the structure of human PINK1, a key protein linked to ...

Fruit flies with genetic mutations that severely reduce sleep show enhanced performance in olfactory memory tasks, ...

Recent work in The EMBO Journal describes a new hybrid post-translational modification of proteins, composed of a poly-ubiquitin chain that is attached to a target protein via a mono-ADP-ribose (MAR) ...

A new study has uncovered a molecular mechanism by which rice cells perceive viral infections and initiate antiviral response ...