The on-and-off affair in DNA
Researchers have discovered that in thale cresses histone H3 lysine-9 (H3K9) methylation, conventionally thought to be a mark of turning […]
Genetics
From takeoff to flight, the wiring of a fly’s nervous system is mapped microbiologystudy
Work is underway on a wiring diagram of the motor circuits in the central nervous system that control muscles in
Scientists discover genetic ‘off switch’ in legume plants that limits biological ability to source nutrients
A genetic “off switch” that shuts down the process in which legume plants convert atmospheric nitrogen into nutrients has been
New, holistic way to teach synthetic biology microbiologystudy
The field of synthetic biology, the science of manipulating biology, has a lot of “cooks in the kitchen,” which has
Potent therapy candidate for fatal prion diseases
Drug development is typically slow: the pipeline from basic research discoveries that provide the basis for a new drug to
A promising weapon against measles microbiologystudy
What happens when measles virus meets a human cell? The viral machinery unfolds in just the right way to reveal
Last surviving woolly mammoths were inbred but not doomed to extinction
The last population of woolly mammoths was isolated on Wrangel Island off the coast of Siberia 10,000 years ago, when
New deep-learning model outperforms Google AI system in predicting peptide structures microbiologystudy
Researchers at the University of Toronto have developed a deep-learning model, called PepFlow, that can predict all possible shapes of
Researchers thwart resistant bacteria’s strategy
Antibiotic resistant bacteria are experts in evolving new strategies to avoid being killed by antibiotics. One such bacterium is Pseudomonas