When University of Utah biologists fed mice sugar in doses proportional to what many people eat, the fructose-glucose mixture found in high-fructose corn syrup…
Plant geneticists including Sam Hazen at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and Siobhan Brady at the University of California, Davis, have sorted out the…
It's about as simple as, “If it glows, cut it out.” And if a few malignant cells remain, they'll soon die.
Results from a study published on Jan. 2 in Science defy textbook science, showing for the first time that the building blocks of a protein, called amino…
Groups at the Weizmann Institute of Science and Cambridge University have jointly managed the feat of turning back the clock on human cells to create…
Every region of the body – from the toes to the jaw and tongue – has a particular processing area in our emotional center in the brain, the somatosensory…
But evolutionary biologists have wondered why the modern structure called the autopod—comprising wrists and fingers or ankles and toes—has no obvious…
While searching for the origin of our brain, biologists at Heidelberg University have gained new insights into the evolution of the central nervous system…
Depending on the respective functions, the muscle types adapt their molecular architecture. Particular combinations of the protein subunits form variants of…
Developing effective treatments for lung cancer has been challenging, in part because so many genetic mutations play a role in the disease.
In cells, ribonucleic acids (RNAs) are most commonly known as messengers or scaffold molecules, but they can also accelerate key biochemical reactions and…
This circuit-level mechanism behind the process of motor recovery was elucidated by Prof. Silvia Arber's research group at the Biozentrum, University of Basel…
There would be no life on our planet without enzymes. These molecules, control and enable biochemical reactions ranging from digestion to the duplication of…
“Genetically similar mice with subtle but stable and transmissible intestinal microbiota showed unexpectedly large differences in the inner colon mucus layer….
In their research on protein quality control, Heidelberg scientists gained new insights into how the cell keeps proteins misdirected into the cell nucleus from…
We know that this reaction needs oxygen, but what we don't know is how fireflies actually supply oxygen to their light-emitting cells. Using state-of-the-art…
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