Tag: Molecular biology
Enzymes are the engines of life − machine learning tools could help...
Sam Pellock, University of Washington
Enzymes are molecular machines that carry out the chemical reactions that sustain all life,...
Banana apocalypse, part 2 – a genomicist explains the tricky genetics...
Li-Jun Ma, UMass Amherst
Did you know that the bananas you eat today are not the same type as...
Visualizing the inside of cells at previously impossible resolutions provides vivid...
Jeremy Berg, University of Pittsburgh
All life is made up of cells several magnitudes smaller than a grain of...
Helping the liver regenerate itself could give patients with end-stage liver...
Satdarshan Monga, University of Pittsburgh Health Sciences
The liver is known for its ability to regenerate. It can completely...
Yorkicystis, the 500 million-year-old relative of starfish that lost its skeleton
Samuel Zamora, Instituto Geológico y Minero de España (IGME - CSIC)
After four years of digging for fossils in...
The 2021 Nobel Prize for medicine helps unravel mysteries about how...
Steven D. Munger, University of Florida
Humans rely on our senses to tell us about the world. Which way...
Lab–grown embryos and human–monkey hybrids: Medical marvels or ethical missteps?
Sahotra Sarkar, The University of Texas at Austin College of Liberal Arts
In Aldous Huxley’s 1932 novel “Brave New...
Bloodthirsty tsetse flies nurse their young, one live birth at a...
Geoff Attardo, University of California, Davis
Tsetse flies are bloodthirsty. Natives of sub-Saharan Africa, tsetse flies can transmit the microbe Trypanosoma when they take a...
EXPLORING NATURE
Stone tool discovery in China shows people in East Asia were...
Ben Marwick, University of Washington
New technologies today often involve electronic devices that are smaller and smarter than before....
