One of the great biological mysteries of the human body is how hundreds of complex, origami-like proteins, many of which are crucial for normal body function, come to assume their final, correct shape. Detailing exactly how this process occurs, which involves a special code, written with carbohydrates on the proteins themselves and known as the “glyco-code,” was the life’s work of Daniel Hebert, professor of biochemistry and molecular biology at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Before his untimely death this past winter, Hebert, along with his UMass Amherst coauthors, composed a magnum opus of everything that we now know about the glyco-code, and it was recently published in Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology.

A new project is underway that could help researchers have a better understanding of an important piece of Earth’s evolutionary history.No th

A new study from scientists at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill reveals that the cells shaping our organs may be far more mobile and coordinated than once believed. 

The strength of Earth's magnetic field has correlated with fluctuations in atmospheric oxygen for hundreds of millions of years, according to a newly released analysis by NASA scientists, suggesting that processes deep inside the Earth might influence habitability on the planet’s surface.