From basic research to beneficial therapies
A newly discovered family of tubulins—members of the cytoskeleton—encoded by bacteriophages plays a role in arranging the location of DNA within virus’s bacterial host.
Swapping chromosomes from one human egg to another could eliminate mitochondrial DNA mutations that cause disease.
Keith Campbell, a biologist who was part of the effort to clone Dolly the sheep, has passed away at the age of 58.
Laboratory-raised populations of dung beetles reveal a mother's extragenetic influence on the physiques of her sons.
Mice raised in isolation from their mothers developed cognitive deficits similar to those of babies raised in orphanages where physical contact is infrequent.
The brain’s phagocytes follow an ATP bread trail laid down by calcium waves to the site of damage.
The DNA forms known as G-quadruplexes are finally discovered in human cells.
Japanese astronauts deliver an aquarium to the International Space Station to study the effects of microgravity on marine life.
A bacterial protein refolds itself into two dramatically different shapes with distinct roles.