Living organisms share an ancestor called the last universal common ancestor, or LUCA. LUCA is estimated to have lived ...

In a world increasingly curated in beige, grey and pale oak, the quiet retreat of color may be flattening not just our spaces, but our very capacity ...

Proteins often function in pairs or groups, concealing their internal connection points and making it difficult for scientists to study their individual units without altering their natural structure.

In a new study, published in Cell, researchers describe a newfound mechanism for creating proteins in a giant DNA virus, ...

Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have discovered that a crucial developmental process in the brain's hypothalamus may influence how susceptible individuals are to obesity. Their ...

The human body is often described in parts—different limbs, systems, and organs—rather than something fully interconnected and whole. Yet many bodily processes interact in ways we may not always ...

Conditional genetics and single-embryo RNA-seq show that SETDB1 extinguishes the transient, retroelement-driven transcriptional programs of the totipotent two-cell state to facilitate the exit from ...

The targeting of transport vesicles to the correct membrane destination involves a much larger set of proteins than anticipated and several layers of protein–protein interactions. The process of ...