Blood pressure drug boosts effectiveness of cancer therapy
In a new Dartmouth Cancer Center (DCC) study led by clinical researcher Tyler J. Curiel, MD, MPH, FACP,…
Tricorder Tech: Protein Sequencing Advance Offers New Insights Into Life’s Foundations
DNA-encoded Edman degradation on magnetic beads. (A) Reaction scheme for barcoding PTC amino acids via DNA-encoded Edman degradation…
New approach developed to visualize proteins at unprecedented scale and sensitivity
Proteins, one of the smallest building blocks of life on Earth, hold promise for answering some of biology’s…
AlphaFold Database expands with millions of predicted protein complexes
A new collaboration between EMBL’s European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), Google DeepMind, NVIDIA, and Seoul National University has made…
DNA’s Building Blocks May Have Arrived from Space, Asteroid Ryugu Samples Suggest
Samples returned by JAXA’s Hayabusa-2 mission from the C-type asteroid (162173) Ryugu contain all five canonical nucleobases —…
Do Extreme Environments Shape Microbial Genomes?
Graphical abstract — University of Waterloo Evolutionary biologists have long known that DNA, the molecule that carries the…
Ancient DNA Switches Found in Plants After 400 Million Years
When we think of evolution, the gradual evolutionary change comes to mind: dinosaurs turning into birds, ancient forests…
Secrets of evolution found in ancient plant DNA
The Takeaway CSHL Professor & HHMI Investigator Zachary Lippman and colleagues have identified more than 2.3 million conserved…
New Research Links Daily Multivitamins to Slower Biological Aging
In a randomized clinical trial of older adults, researchers found that taking multivitamins for two years modestly slowed…
Transposable elements cause majority of lethal mutations in fruit flies
Most lethal mutations in wild fruit flies are driven by newly transferred jumping genes, not small DNA errors,…
Enzyme helps maintain retinal progenitor cells during eye development
The retina is a thin layer of neural tissue at the back of the eye that detects light…
Scientists simulate complete life cycle of a minimal bacterial cell
By simulating the life cycle of a minimal bacterial cell – from DNA replication to protein translation to…