A study in fruit flies suggests an internal genomic arms race may be driving rapid evolution in proteins that still perform an essential, unchanging job: protecting chromosome ends.

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For nearly a century, biologists have relied on a simple rule to predict how microbes grow when food is scarce, a rule that ...

A new study finds that at least one Archaea has surprisingly flexibility when interpreting genetic code, which goes against a ...

An Australian researcher went undercover to learn more about how Broscience experiments with dangerous drugs — and found a ...

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Life may have emerged from a surprisingly simple network of chemical reactions long before cells or genes existed.

A study by the Mildred Scheel Early Career Center group led by Dr. Mohamed Elgendy at the TUD Faculty of Medicine provides ...

G-protein coupled receptors (GPCRs) are proteins triggered by ligands (protein-binding chemicals) from outside cells to ...

Artificial intelligence has just helped virologists pull off something that used to take years of trial and error: crippling a virus by changing a single molecular contact point. Instead of screening ...