How does a cell “decide” what type of cell to become? The question of “cell fate” has been explored for...
In human chromosomes, DNA is coated by proteins to form an exceedingly long beaded string. This “string” is folded into...
Scientist from the Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Discovery (CIBD) of the Natural History Museum in Berlin, from the ZUSE-Institute Berlin...
Sponges in coral reefs, less flashy than their coral neighbors but important to the overall health of reefs, are among...
Alternative splicing is a fundamental biological process that allows cells to make many different types of mRNAs and proteins from...
What’s the link between social life and brain structure? Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania, the Stem Cell and Brain...
A collaborative team led by researchers at the University of Texas (UT) at Austin, the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology (HudsonAlpha),...
As negotiations before the 15th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP-15) take place, international research...
Warming of the oceans due to climate change will mean fewer productive fish species to catch in the future, according...
In the mosquito breeding rooms of British biotech company Oxitec, scientists line up fresh eggs, each the size of a...
Until now, there have been two completely different approaches to producing artificial tissue. At TU Wien, a third approach has...
Modern agriculture is underpinned by a steady supply of fertilizer. However, one of the main ingredients of fertilizer, phosphorus, is...
