An international research team has mapped the millisecond-by-millisecond process by which nerve signals activate muscles, uncovering a previously unseen “primed” intermediate step.

Diagnosing cancer and selecting the appropriate therapy depend crucially on how well experts understand the processes in ...

Wiring up the brain's trillions of circuit connections is an enormous job performed by a huge crew of molecules. Among the less understood members are circular RNAs, transcripts from DNA that assume a ...

Chemists at Université de Montréal have developed "signaling cascades" made with DNA molecules to report and quantify the ...

The rapid progression of an aging society has led to a sharp rise in patients with neurodegenerative diseases such as ...