Fruit fly larvae can taste ribonucleosides, the building blocks of gene transcripts, according to a new study publishing on August
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Finding the proteins that unpack DNA
A new method allows researchers to systematically identify specialized proteins that unpack DNA inside the nucleus of a cell, making
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3D imaging and computer modeling capture breast duct development
Working with hundreds of time-lapse videos of mouse tissue, a team of biologists joined up with civil engineers to create
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Ten thousand bursting genes: Genes marked with colorful barcodes give precise, instantaneous snapshots of single cells
A breakthrough new technique enables scientists to image 10,421 genes at once within individual cells. The work was done in
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Avoiding catastrophe: Yeast study reveals clues to maintaining genome size: Yeast cells reveal clues to agressive childhood kidney cancer
As cells divide, they must accurately split their DNA between the two daughter cells or risk having an uneven number
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Simpler model gets to the point with proteins: Scientists introduce technique to study dynamic processes with greater accuracy
Computational models have come a long way in their ability to simulate the most basic biological processes, such as how
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Drowsy worms offer new insights into the neuroscience of sleep
A good night of sleep entails about eight hours of blissful immobility — a state of near paralysis that, though
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How immune cells kill bacteria with acid: Crucial protein for acidification of macrophage phagosome discovered
The first line of immune defense against invading pathogens like bacteria are macrophages, immune cells that engulf every foreign object
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Bacterial toxins wreak havoc by crippling cellular infrastructure: Study could lead to better tactics to fight antibiotic-resistant bugs, researchers say
Bacterial toxins can wreak mass havoc within cells by shutting down multiple essential functions at once, a new study has
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Study exposes key tactic used by deadly fungus
A multidisciplinary study by Monash University Biomedicine Discovery Institute (BDI) researchers has revealed that a lethal fungus destroys the immune
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