To advance the field of chemical biology, Superti-Furga and assistant professor Ulrike Eggert of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and the department of biological chemistry and molecular pharmacology ...

Human bodies have to be built from a single egg cell that's fertilized by a sperm cell. Many rounds of cell division occur as the body is developing, and it seems that there are plenty of chances for ...

Researchers have uncovered a developmental switch needed to activate global transcriptional silencing, a key step needed for the fertilization of eggs. Zfp36L2 acts as a switch toward the end of ...

The ability of chemists to synthesize molecules has been invaluable to biological research. As a result, the development and application of chemical tools for gaining molecular-level insights into ...