BioSolutions

Dr. Rhodes has a 12-year track record in cancer genomics and bioinformatics, with a significant focus on building systems to enable...

The chemical structure of everyone's DNA is the same. The only difference between people (or any animal) is the order of...

The cAMP signal transduction contains 5 main characters: stimulative hormone receptor (Rs) or inhibitory hormone receptor (Ri); stimulative regulative G-protein (Gs)...

Oncogenic activation receptor tyrosine kinases ...

Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) is the DNA located in organelles called mitochondria. Most other DNA present in eukaryotic organisms is found in...

G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs), also known as seven transmembrane domain receptors, 7TM receptors, heptahelical receptors, and G protein-linked receptors (GPLR), comprise...

Endocytosis is a process whereby cells absorb material (molecules such as proteins) from the outside by engulfing it with their cell...

Bipolar Disorder encompasses a wide spectrum of symptoms and is classified according to the types of mood episodes exhibited, including: manic,...

The concept of 'teaching' the immune system to recognize and destroy cancer cells is over a century old, but the development...

At the micro-scale the brain is a mess; a thick tangle of nerve cells connected at synapses. Mapping just a tiny...

The gut microbiota has an essential role in stimulating the development and maintainance of the intestinal immune system – in fact,...

In this animation, we demonstrate the biology of DNA replication leading to bacterial cell division in a gram positive bacterium, such...

The macrolides are a group of drugs (typically antibiotics) whose activity stems from the presence of a macrolide ring, a large...

Glioma is a type of cancer that starts in the brain or spine. It is called a glioma because it arises...

Muscle architecture is the physical arrangement of muscle fibers at the macroscopic level that determines a muscle’s mechanical function. There are...

Regulation of transcription controls when transcription occurs and how much RNA is created. Transcription of a gene by RNA polymerase can...

Eukaryotic translation is the process by which messenger RNA is translated into proteins in eukaryotes. Initiation The cap-dependent initiation Initiation of...

Nanorobotics is the technology of creating machines or robots at or close to the microscopic scale of a nanometres (10-9 metres)....

Beta cells (beta-cells, β-cells) are a type of cell in the pancreas in areas called the islets of Langerhans. They make...

SDS-PAGE, sodium dodecyl sulfate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, is a technique used in biochemistry, genetics and molecular biology to separate proteins according...

Trinucleotide repeat disorders (also known as trinucleotide repeat expansion disorders, triplet repeat expansion disorders or codon reiteration disorders) are a set...

DNA replication is the process of copying a double-stranded DNA molecule to form two double-stranded molecules. The process of DNA replication...

Genetic testing allows the genetic diagnosis of vulnerabilities to inherited diseases, and can also be used to determine a person's ancestry....

Chromosomal crossover (or crossing over) is the process by which two chromosomes pair up and exchange sections of their DNA. This...

DNA sequencers have become more important due to large genomics projects and the need to increase productivity. Modern automated DNA sequencing...

The ear is the sense organ that detects sounds. The vertebrate ear shows a common biology from fish to humans, with...

Chromosome translocation is a chromosome abnormality caused by rearrangement of parts between nonhomologous chromosomes. It is detected on cytogenetics or a...