Today NASA announced the selection of a University of California San Diego-led satellite mission for the Earth System ...

Neutrino particles have extremely small masses, yet there are so many of them that they carve out the large-scale structure ...

Tianren Zhang, Yao Tang and professor Darrin Pochan developed protein-based building blocks, called bundlemers, for advanced ...

The new workflow was adapted from an enzymatic DNA tagging technology, DNA-TAG, previously developed in the Devaraj lab. In ...

A French research team led by CNRS scientists has discovered that cells are able to retain a memory of a previous perturbation within the 3D structure of their genome, independently of their DNA ...

Over the past two decades, researchers have learned that DNA inside the cell nucleus naturally folds into a network of ...

The cytokine-producing signal protein, a target for drug hunters, has additional activators that could be manipulated ...

In the murky waters of Ushiku-numa, a freshwater pond just northeast of Tokyo, a microscopic drama has been playing out for ...

Known as viral eukaryogenesis, this idea was first proposed in 2001 by Masaharu Takemura, a molecular biologist at the Tokyo University of Science. He suggested the nucleus of eukaryotic cells arose ...

While the concept is well established and several RNAi drugs have reached the clinic, their effectiveness has often been limited by the challenge of delivering fragile RNA molecules intact to the ...

Triterpenoid saponins are key bioactive compounds responsible for the medicinal value of many plants, yet how plants regulate the balance between saponin production and sterol biosynthesis has ...

Human cells are extremely small and tightly packed – at about 20 micrometers across, ...