Communications Biology is an open access journal from Nature Research publishing high-quality research, reviews and commentary in all areas of the biological sciences. Research papers published by the journal represent significant advances bringing new biological insight to a specialized area of research.
A group of scientists from CECAD has found a mechanism by which neurodevelopmental diseases concerning neurons can be explained. The loss of a certain enzyme, UBE2K, impedes the differentiation of stem cells by silencing ...
Cell & Microbiology
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The latest generation of tetracyclines—a class of powerful, first-line antibiotics—was designed to thwart the two most common ways bacteria resist such drugs. But a new study from researchers at Washington University ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jun 03, 2020
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An international team of scientists have identified a naturally occurring gene variation that influences sodium content in barley crops. The finding could help to advance the development of barley varieties with greater yield ...
Plants & Animals
May 25, 2020
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A UK-wide research team, led by the Schools of Physics and Astronomy and Medicine at the University of St Andrews, has developed an innovative way to monitor the reaction of living bacteria to antibiotics using lasers and ...
Cell & Microbiology
May 14, 2020
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In nature, every species must be equipped with a strategy to survive in response to danger. Plants, too, have innate systems that are triggered in response to a particular threat, such as insects feeding on them. For example, ...
Plants & Animals
May 08, 2020
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In a world where movements of non-native animal species are drastically disrupting whole ecosystems and causing economic harm and environmental change, it is becoming increasingly important to understand the features that ...
Plants & Animals
May 07, 2020
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The germline is the cell lineage of an organism that passes on its genetic material to its progeny. Genetic damage to the germline can cause developmental defects and even death of that same progeny. It is thought that biological ...
Biotechnology
May 07, 2020
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Homologous recombination is an essential process of DNA repair to maintain genomic integrity of the organism. Now, researchers from Japan have identified mechanisms that choose between alternate pathways of DNA repair to ...
Evolution
Apr 30, 2020
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In the midst of unprecedented climate change and population growth, the establishment of a method to rapidly create elite crop varieties via selective breeding is a matter of urgency to maintain the food supply. In order ...
Plants & Animals
Apr 24, 2020
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A new genome editing system enhances the efficiency of an error-free DNA repair pathway, which could help improve agronomic traits in multiple crops.
Biotechnology
Apr 07, 2020
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