A pigment that makes feathers and hair orange helps prevent cellular damage by removing excess cysteine from cells. Pheomelanin is an orange-to-red pigment that is built with the amino acid cysteine and found in human red ...
Evolution
Jan 6, 2026
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Scientists at the Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology (IMBB-FORTH) and the University of Crete, together with collaborators from Greece, Europe, the U.S., and India, have discovered a novel role of albumin, the ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jan 17, 2026
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Like a phoenix rising from the ashes, our skin tissue—and in fact many types of epithelial tissue that lines and covers the body's organs—can respond to death and destruction with a burst of regeneration. This phenomenon, ...
Cell & Microbiology
Dec 24, 2025
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Dorota Skowronska-Krawczyk sits in her office, eyes fixed on the computer monitor in front of her. "You see it move its eye," says the UC Irvine associate professor of physiology and biophysics, pointing to an image of a ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 5, 2026
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Right now, the debate about consciousness often feels frozen between two entrenched positions. On one side sits computational functionalism, which treats cognition as something you can fully explain in terms of abstract information ...
Other
Dec 22, 2025
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Researchers at ETH Zurich recently explained the role of a molecular complex that orchestrates the production of proteins in our cells. They now show that this complex also controls the processing of proteins that compact ...
Cell & Microbiology
Dec 19, 2025
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One of the most detailed 3D maps of how the human chromosomes are organized and folded within a cell's nucleus is published in Nature.
A new computational model of the brain based closely on its biology and physiology has not only learned a simple visual category learning task exactly as well as lab animals, but even enabled the discovery of counterintuitive ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Dec 29, 2025
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Drugs that act against bacteria are mainly assessed based on how well they inhibit bacterial growth under laboratory conditions. A critical factor, however, is whether the active substances actually kill the pathogens in ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jan 9, 2026
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Many biological processes are regulated by electricity—from nerve impulses to heartbeats to the movement of molecules in and out of cells.
Cell & Microbiology
Dec 19, 2025
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