By varying the size of their steps, dynein motor proteins work effectively as teams to carry heavy loads around the cell.
By varying the size of their steps, dynein motor proteins work effectively as teams to carry heavy loads around the cell.
Rodents and fruit flies appear to be able to sense nutrients even when they can’t taste the food they’re eating. Now, researchers are trying to figure out how.
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Fossilized skeletal remains of the hominid Australopithecus sediba add to the puzzle of human evolution.
Female preference may have driven the evolution of human males’ relatively large genitalia.
Researchers develop two small molecules that slow the growth of human cancer cells.
In Chapter 3, “Tamping the Simian Urge,” author Travis Rayne Pickering contrasts the brute physicality of predatory chimpanzees with the headier hunting style employed by humans.
Satellites of the Golgi apparatus generate the microtubules used to grow outer dendrite branches in Drosophila neurons.
Histone acetylation levels keep intracellular pH in check.
Archaeology can shine needed light on the evolution of our aggressive tendencies.