A team led by the University of Tsukuba has found key differences that explain why some species of fungi can grow successfully through tiny gaps,…
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The plasticizers contained in many everyday objects can impair important brain functions in humans. Biologists from the University of Bayreuth warn of this danger in…
Findings may have important implications for understanding age-related diseases. Scientists at Sanford Burnham Prebys have gained a deeper insight into the intricacies of autophagy, the…
A glasswing butterfly feeding at flowers in Costa Rica. The remarkable transparency of these butterflies allows them to be “invisible,” and the antiglare coating of…
Deleting the TFG-β receptor in NK cells overcame immune suppression and enabled anti-tumor activity in preclinical models. Preclinical research from The University of Texas MD…
NEIDL, Broad Institute scientists say next-generation vaccines could stimulate another arm of the immune system, imparting better protection against coronavirus variants. A new study looking…
In wild-type plant cells, lattice-bound Msd1 (filled green circle) recruits cytoplasmic Wdr8 (open green circle) to form a heteromeric complex, which is translocated to and…
Just a small number of cells found in tumors can enable and recruit other types of cells nearby, allowing the cancer to spread to other…
Credit: University of Edinburgh A light-activated drug that can enter and kill bacterial and cancer cells without harming nearby healthy cells has been tested successfully.…
Illustration of the cyanobacterial thylakoid membrane. Credit: Luning Liu et al. A new study conducted by the researchers at the University of Liverpool reveals how…
Confocal micrograph of mouse small intestine with the Red2Onco technology. With Red2Onco, the oncogenic mutant clones (Red clones), and normal or wild-type clones (Yellow or…
Staining for RAD51 (bright cyan-colored dot) in a fertilized one-cell mouse embryo shows repair of a CRISPR-induced DNA break. Credit: Image courtesy of the researchers.…
Single-cell analysis of autopsy samples from COVID-19 patients shows how the lungs repeatedly tried, and failed, to repair themselves. Scientists from several hospitals and research…
In a discovery that challenges long-held dogma in biology, researchers show that mammalian cells can convert RNA sequences back into DNA, a feat more common…
A team of scientists led by James Godwin, Ph.D., of the MDI Biological Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Maine, has come a step closer to unraveling…
Trypanosome cell during meiosis. Credit: Dr. Lori Peacock Researchers at the University of Bristol have discovered how microbes responsible for human African sleeping sickness produce…
The SARS-CoV-2 virus inserts itself into the membrane of a host human cell using a small part of its spike protein (yellow), called a fusion…
For the first time, Australian scientists have confirmed a link between the role of regular fish oil to break down the ability of ‘superbugs’ to…
Discovery of unique virus traits offer possible explanations as to why older adults and people with diabetes or heart disease can have more severe responses…
The skull of Peştera Muierii 1, which entire genome is now successfully sequenced. Credit: Mattias Jakobsson For the first time, researchers have successfully sequenced the…