The better we understand cellular processes such as RNA regulation, the better molecular therapies can be developed. Until now, it has been especially difficult to track the regulation of non-coding RNA, which is RNA that ...
Cell & Microbiology
Nov 14, 2022
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Cephalopods—which include octopus, squid, and their cuttlefish cousins—are capable of some truly charismatic behaviors. They can quickly process information to transform shape, color, and even texture, blending in with ...
Plants & Animals
Nov 9, 2022
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Highly charged ions are a common form of matter in the cosmos, where they are found, for example, in the sun or other stars. They are so called because they have lost many electrons and therefore have a high positive charge. ...
Optics & Photonics
Nov 2, 2022
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Elephants have an amazing arsenal of face, ear and trunk movements. The trunk consists of far more muscles than the entire human body and can perform both powerful and very delicate movements.
Plants & Animals
Oct 27, 2022
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Plant cell-surface localized immune receptors recognize conserved microbial features to perceive pathogen invasion and activate plant immunity. Heterotrimeric G proteins, which are composed of α, β and γ subunits, are ...
Plants & Animals
Oct 19, 2022
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Massive neutron stars colliding in space are thought to be able to create precious metals such as gold and platinum. The properties of these stars are still an enigma, but the answer may lie beneath the skin of one of the ...
Plasma Physics
Oct 12, 2022
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By analyzing the data from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Legacy Imaging Surveys and from the LOFAR Two-meter Sky Survey (LoTSS), an international team of astronomers has made a rare finding—the detection ...
Scientists have shown that in one in every 4,000 births, some of the genetic code from our mitochondria—the 'batteries' that power our cells—inserts itself into our DNA, revealing a surprising new insight into how humans ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Oct 5, 2022
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Researchers at the John Innes Centre and partners at the Chinese Academy of Sciences have identified a molecular switch that establishes differential cell growth and organ shape.
Plants & Animals
Oct 3, 2022
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Most mass in everyday matter around us resides in protons and neutrons inside the atomic nucleus. However, the lifetime of a free neutron—one not bounded to a nucleus—is unstable, decaying by a process called beta decay. ...
Quantum Physics
Sep 28, 2022
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