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…
Immune cells have a surprising role in exercise endurance
B cells, an important component of the immune system, might improve endurance and muscle strength.Credit: Hinterhaus Productions/Getty Immune…
Flexible ensheathment of axons enables myelination of complex CNS networks
Zebrafish care and use Zebrafish were maintained in the Queen’s Medical Research Institute BVS Aquatics Facility at the…
‘Virtual cell’ captures most-basic process of life: bacterial division
A computer generated illustration of a simulated cell in the early stages of division. Credit: Zane Thornburg For…
A ‘time capsule for cells’ stores the secret experiences of their past
Ribosomes, pictured here, synthesize proteins by translating messenger RNA (mRNA) into amino acid chains. Credit: Christoph Burgstedt/Science Photo…
Why cancer can come back years later — and how to stop it
When Lisa Dutton was declared free of breast cancer in 2017, she took a moment to celebrate with…
The ‘silent’ brain cells that shape our behaviour, memory and health
For decades, neuroscientists focused almost exclusively on only half of the cells in the brain. Neurons were the…
Plants have a secret language that scientists are only now starting to decipher
When Robert Hooke gazed through his microscope at a slice of cork and coined the term ‘cell’ in…
Common IVF test misses some genetic abnormalities in embryos
Coloured light micrograph of a human embryo after in vitro fertilisation ZEPHYR/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY During in vitro fertilisation…
CellNavi predicts genes directing cellular transitions by learning a gene graph-enhanced cell state manifold
Input embeddings In CellNavi, we use single-cell raw count matrices as the only input. Specifically, the single-cell sequencing…
The Surprising Way Parents Transfer Longevity to Offspring
Research in C. elegans shows that longevity-related changes in lysosomes can be passed from parents to offspring. The…
Tiny Arctic Organisms Are Defying the Rules of Biology
Image of an Arctic diatom, showing the actin filaments that run down its middle and enable its skating…