HOUSTON (April 3, 2009) – A particular nuclear hormone receptor called DAF-12 and molecules called microRNAs in the let-7 family form a molecular switch that encourages cells in the larvae of a model ...

For this article, Nadia S. Halim interviewed Ronald Evans, professor in the gene expression laboratory, Salk Institute, La Jolla, Calif., and Hongwu Chen, postdoctoral fellow, Salk Institute. Both are ...

Nuclear receptors are popular targets for drug companies searching for new therapeutics for cancer and cardiovascular, metabolic, inflammatory, and other diseases. Indigo Biosciences in State College, ...

Researchers describe a new manner of detecting microbial infection that intercepts pathogen-derived signals of growth to assess the relative threat of virulent bacteria. A nuclear hormone receptor in ...

Scientists at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) have glimpsed never-before-seen details of the human androgen receptor — the protein inside of cells that responds to male-typical hormones ...

A study published in Immunity by physician-scientist Read Pukkila-Worley, MD, and MD/PhD students Nicholas D. Peterson and Samantha Y. Tse describes a new manner of detecting microbial infection that ...

Researchers at the University of Vienna have developed fluorescent peptide tracers that can simultaneously visualize and ...

Svetlana Mojsov has been named the winner of the 2026 Kimberly Prize in Biochemistry & Molecular Genetics from Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and the Simpson Querrey Institute for ...

A new Salk Institute study suggests estrogen-related receptors could be a key to repairing energy metabolism and muscle fatigue. Across the body, tiny bean-shaped structures called mitochondria turn ...