Ubiquitin marks proteins for degradation, whereby ubiquitin molecules can be combined in different types and numbers forming different chains. Researchers...
Imagine a world where the oxygen you need changes dramatically between day and night. Your world shifts from being rich...
Climate change is causing the world’s glaciers to disappear at an alarming rate. Scientists have been studying and modeling this...
In collaboration with a foundation that breeds service dogs for the visually impaired, researchers at the School of Veterinary Medicine...
An international team on board Schmidt Ocean Institute’s R/V Falkor (too) working in the Bellingshausen Sea rapidly pivoted their research...
Great recipes require the perfect combination of ingredients—biotechnology recipes are no exception. Researchers from Osaka Metropolitan University have discovered the...
Dogs have many jobs, but one you may not expect is identifying grapevines coated in a destructive and highly contagious...
Origin of life: How a special group of single-celled organisms laid the foundation for complex cells
Ten years ago, nobody knew that Asgard archaea even existed. In 2015, however, researchers examining deep-sea sediments discovered gene fragments...
If you’ve ever noticed how memories from the same day seem connected while events from weeks apart feel separate, a...
Like people, bacteria get invaded by viruses. In bacteria, the viral invaders are called bacteriophages, derived from the Greek word...
Biological cells often possess thin, hair-like protrusions on their surface known as cilia, which serve various functions ranging from movement...
In a groundbreaking study on the synthesis of cellulose—a major constituent of all plant cell walls—a team of Rutgers University-New...
