A hairpin loop from a pre-mRNA. Highlighted are the nucleobases (green) and the ribose-phosphate backbone (blue). Note that this is a single strand of RNA that folds back upon itself....
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A small team of researchers at the University of Manchester has developed a technique for creating a molecular-based, finite-state machine. Their research was published in the...
Early establishment of the morphospace for skeletal form and beak shape during the diversification of Neornithes. Credit: Nature (2022). DOI: 10.1038/s41586-022-05372-y A team of researchers, one with the University of...
Modeling ligand–receptor signaling with NCEM. (a) UMAP of cells in MERFISH—fetal liver data. (b) Imputation of MERFISH data with scRNA-seq increases the number of genes that can be modeled with...
The eight-centimetre-long finger of the aye-aye can reach through its nose to the back of its throat, with the animals seen licking off the gathered mucus. Credit: Anne-Claire Fabre/Renaud Boistel...
Credit: Dominic McAfee, Author provided Imagine you're in a food court and spoilt for choice. How will you choose where to eat? It might be the look of the food,...
Excitatory/inhibitory neuronal reporter imaged in rat hippocampal neuronal cultures. Credit: Alexei Bygrave, Johns Hopkins Medicine Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers say they have successfully used a cell's natural process for making...
A mechanism that regulates lunar-synchronized beach spawning in puffer fish. Credit: Issey Takahashi A group of animal biologists and chemists at the Institute of Transformative Bio-Molecules (ITbM) at Nagoya University...
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Viral DNA in human genomes, embedded there from ancient infections, serves as antivirals that protect human cells against certain present-day viruses, according to new research. The...
David Lao Martil defended his PhD thesis at the department of Biomedical Engineering on October 20th. Credit: Eindhoven University of Technology Biotechnology involves the use of living organisms or parts...