The new doors AI and machine learning are opening to scientists undoubtedly will invite weighty ethical and moral questions as well. But the dawn of a new way of manipulating life's building blocks ...

A new study has revealed that a single genetic mutation, found in all modern humans but absent in Neanderthals and Denisovans ...

Cell-to-cell communication is essential throughout all forms and stages of life, and many communication mechanisms are well ...

A specific gene variant seen in people is likely one of many that contributed to the development of language in modern humans, scientists say. And it changes how mice squeak.

Torsional stress in chromatin plays a fundamental role in cellular functions, influencing key processes such as transcription, replication, and chromatin organization. Transcription and other ...

In the second episode of The Deep End, listeners hear what it’s like to live with severe depression and the backstory of an experimental treatment.

Endosomal recycling is a branch of intracellular membrane trafficking that retrieves endocytosed cargo proteins from early and late endosomes to prevent their degradatio ...

In a study published in Nature Structural and Molecular Biology, scientists from the Department of Medical Biochemistry and ...

Unlike humans, who produce CoQ10 with a side chain of 10 isoprene units (C50), cereal crops such as rice and wheat, as well ...

According to the journal Science, Striga ranks among the world's top seven agricultural pests, alongside wheat stem rust, ...

Changes to the intermediate filament (IF) protein, vimentin, were found to promote tumor growth by increasing cancer stemness in an oestrogen independent manner. Targeting vimentin and/or the long ...

Using a new method to study how carbohydrates modify proteins, scientists have discovered that gut bacteria can alter molecular signatures in the brain.