biochemistry, cell & molecular biology

Synthetic biologists harness software to design genes and networks.

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Principal Investigator, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research. Associate Professor, Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Age: 44

Editor's choice in biochemistry

Often thought to be artifacts of the lab, prions in yeast may actually drive the evolution of beneficial traits.

Imaging cell cytoskeletons during early embryonic development leads researchers to uncover a new regulator of cell shape

An alternative form of an enzyme involved in the glucose metabolism pathway protects cancer cells from oxidative stress.

Researchers have pinpointed the region of a key cancer gene that’s involved in tumor suppression.

A snapshot of the most highly ranked articles in biochemistry and related areas, from Faculty of 1000

Considered a renegade by his peers, Nobel Prize-winner Eric Kandel used a simple model to probe the neural circuitry of memory.

Starving brain cells can stimulate hunger through a common cannibalistic act, possibly explaining why some dieters can’t resist temptation.

Meet some of the people featured in the July 2011 issue of The Scientist.

Research in behavioral epigenetics is seeking evidence that links experience to biochemistry to gene expression and back out again.