UCLA Health researchers say study findings uncover Huntington's disease mechanisms and pave new ways to develop treatments.

For the Liu Lab, necessity is truly the mother of invention. The researchers were examining how the 3D organization of the ...

Scientists have uncovered a critical piece of the puzzle in autoimmune diseases: a protein that helps release immune response ...

In addition to exporting materials out of the nucleus, the protein, called Exportin-1 (also called Xpo1 or Crm1), seems to play a role in promoting gene transcription, the process that creates RNA ...

The small study in patients with a rare disorder that causes liver and lung damage showed the potential for precisely ...

Radiation therapy is a powerful tool for fighting cancer, but it comes with painful side effects. About 60% of cancer ...

“Matthew really opened up a new form of epigenetic inheritance,” says Dr. Brent Derry, Eroglu’s supervisor. “He found that amyloids can be inherited, marking a significant discovery in protein-based ...

In humans and other multicellular organisms, cells multiply. This defining feature allows embryos to grow into adulthood, and enables the healing of the many bumps, bruises and scrapes along the way.

Genes have to be expressed in the right place, at the time, and at the right levels. Scientists wanted to know more about how ...