This Weird Sea Creature May Have Rewritten Life’s Genetic Rulebook
Image of the ‘sea walnut’ Mnemiopsis leydi. Credit: Joan-Josep Soto Angel Long-distance gene control first emerged around 650…
Mobile intron RNA from a bacterial predator accumulates in dead archaeal cells
Cultivation Anaerobic cultivation techniques were applied18. One liter of freshwater medium contained 1.0 g of NaCl, 0.4 g of MgCl2 × 6…
Scientists Discover New Way To Make Drug-Resistant Cancer Treatable Again
Researchers have identified a way to weaken cancer cells by disrupting the stability of proteins responsible for repairing…
Scientists Discover Natural Molecule That Stops Alzheimer’s Protein Clumps From Forming
Scientists have uncovered evidence that the formation of functional protein droplets and harmful fibrils can be separated. By…
Powerful Antioxidant Found To Play a Key Role in Proper Protein Folding
The ER is shown in the upper right, with disulfide-linked GSSG in the lumen. The exporter resembles the…
All life runs on 20 amino acids. These cells run key machinery on just 19
Scientists equipped Escherichia coli (example pictured) with ribosomes that lacked the amino acid isoleucine.Credit: James Cavallini/Science Photo Library…
Bread Might Be Making You Gain Weight Even Without Eating More Calories
In a new study, mice strongly preferred foods like bread, rice, and wheat, abandoning their regular diet and…
Antisense oligonucleotides reverse rare neurodevelopmental disorder in preclinical models
Scientists at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital have found they can reverse the effects of HNRNPH2-related neurodevelopmental disorder using…
Study reveals how inflammation disrupts lymph node structure in lymphoma
In aggressive lymphomas, inflammatory messengers reprogram the “conductors” of the immune system, causing lymph nodes structure to collapse.…
Open Framework for Integrating Whole-Slide and Molecular Data
Cell detection with LazySlide in human colon tissue: Immune cells (green), connective tissue cells (blue) and epithelial cells…
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…
Study reveals how disordered proteins function without stable structure
A new LMU study shows how proteins function reliably even without a stable 3D structure – and the…