Despite awe-inspiring diversity, nearly every lifeform – from bacteria to blue whales – shares the same genetic code. How and when this code came about has been the subject of much scientific ...

A new study unveils how the lack of a fraction of the CPEB4 protein causes a decrease in the expression of genes that are crucial for neuronal development.

Nearly all living organisms use the same genetic code, a complicated mechanism by which genetic information is translated into proteins, the building blocks of life. A new study suggests conventional ...

This virus was isolated from a composting soil sample in the city of Jyväskylä ... structure of Jyvaskylavirus at a resolution of 6.3 Å. Cross-structural and sequence comparison allowed us to identify ...

EMBL's scientists have been instrumental in helping the world understand, decode, archive, and manipulate genomes at scale ...

As we approach the end of 2024, First Opinion is publishing a series of essays on the state of AI in medicine and biopharma. ...

Marcks and Marcks-like 1 proteins are required for normal neurite formation and proliferation of neuro-glial progenitors during development and regeneration of the Xenopus spinal cord implicating ...

A newly developed approach can precisely produce four-stranded β-sheets through metal–peptide coordination, report ...

Researchers unveil a method to precisely create four-stranded berta-sheets via metal-peptide coordination, overcoming ...