Scientists uncover how muscle actin filaments grow and renew themselves
Biophysicists unraveled a mystery of how muscles form at the molecular level and how they maintain their function.…
Plastic chemicals linked to nearly two million premature births
Exposure to a chemical commonly used to make plastic more flexible may have contributed to about 1.97 million…
New study shows why HIV health recovery fails despite antiretroviral therapy
What if the presence of a well-known but misunderstood viral protein explains why some people living with HIV…
The botulinum seen up close: here is the complex that delivers the toxin
Finally studied with a Nobel technique the protein structure that shields and releases botulinum, bacterium toxinClostridium botulinum. For…
CRISPR system reprograms bacteria to disarm deadly toxin
Antibiotics usually save lives—but against some bacteria, they can make things worse. That’s the case with the…
Long-Misidentified Fossil is First Known Nonmarine Lobopodian, Paleontologists Say
First published in 1865 as a caterpillar, nearly fifty years before the discovery of Canada’s Burgess Shale, Palaeocampa…