The endoplasmic reticulum (ER) regulates protein folding and maintains proteostasis in cells- a process essential to maintaining cellular health. However, researchers at UAB have found that chronic ...

Uric acid builds up in the blood when the body cannot excrete it efficiently, leading to painful gout attacks, kidney stones, and other complications. Current treatments often rely on drugs that block ...

In recent weeks, two independent teams have reported long-sought X-ray crystal structures of two enzymes that remove halides from molecules with help from vitamin B-12. These so-called reductive ...

Editor's note: Information about the curator of this exhibit has been corrected in this article. When we consider America’s most significant contribution to 20th century visual aesthetics, we ...

What is the core message of science? Is it the idea that everything is, at the bottom, just mechanical processes of “matter in motion”? Does science tell us that what is really happening when we talk ...