Tag: proteostasis

Molecular & Cellular Biology

The Biology of Aging: Chemistry Behind Growing Old

Aging is among the most universal of all biological phenomena, yet it remains one of the least completely understood. Every organism equipped with a soma, from the microscopic nematode Caenorhabditis elegans to the long-lived bowhead whale, undergoes progressive physiological deterioration…

Molecular & Cellular Biology

What Happens Inside a Cell Every Second

The living cell is, by any reasonable measure, the most sophisticated chemical system known to science. Packed into a volume that may span as little as 10 micrometers (um) across, a typical mammalian cell executes thousands of overlapping biochemical programmes…