Summary: A new study has uncovered why some motor neurons resist degeneration in ALS while others succumb. Researchers found ...

Dubbed the ‘guardian of the genome’, the p53 protein responds to DNA damage by stalling cell division, initiating DNA repair or triggering cell death. This well-known pathway is frequently mutated or ...

By analyzing millions of messenger RNA molecules (mRNA) during the course of ALS, researchers at Stockholm University, in ...

By analyzing millions of messenger RNA molecules (mRNA) during the course of ALS, researchers at Stockholm University, in ...

In 1957, just four years after Francis Crick and other scientists solved the riddle of DNA’s structure—the now famous double ...

A gene identified more than 30 years ago has now revealed its role as a natural microRNA (miRNA) sponge to fine-tune the ...