A detailed analysis of the way that proteins become bound to nucleotides, the structural units of DNA and RNA, gives insight into how key enzymes that control metabolism in all living organisms may have evolved.
The capacity of coral reefs to provide ecosystem services relied on by millions of people worldwide has declined by half since the 1950s, according to a new University of British Columbia-led study.
Scientists have recently found a way to use sunflower pollen to develop a new ink for 3D printing that could be used to fabricate parts useful for tissue engineering, toxicity testing, and drug delivery.
Hidden within brush and tall plants are small beetles that hold the key to next generation composite materials in bioengineering.
One of the strangest carnivorous dinosaurs ever discovered has been given a makeover by a pair of Belgian and Australian palaeontologists.
It was wartime and food was scarce.
A collaboration of molecular biologists and bioinformaticians from Germany, Austria, and Japan has discovered a limitation in the method long used to evaluate oocytes (immature egg cells) in medical research.
An interdisciplinary conference in Paris in March discussed how expanding knowledge of the way microbes interact with Earth’s environment is revolutionizing not only science and medicine, but the fields of law, philosophy and the arts.
Peer into any fishbowl, and you’ll see that pet goldfish and guppies have nimble fins.
The University of Bern has issued the following press release:An international team of researchers including scientists from the Institute of Genetics of the University of Bern has unraveled the enigma of inheritance of coat color patterns in dogs.
Scientists who study glacier ice have found viruses nearly 15,000 years old in two ice samples taken from the Tibetan Plateau in China.
Scientists at the University of Bristol have discovered evidence that giraffes are a highly socially complex species.
As a newborn mammal opens its eyes for the first time, it can already make visual sense of the world around it.
Scientists studying the biochemistry of plant cell walls have identified an enzyme that could turn woody poplar trees into a source for producing a major industrial chemical.
An international team of biologists, chemists, and physicists has produced new evidence supporting the hypothesis that migratory birds can navigate at night using the varying quantum state of electrons in their retinas.
Technology could lead to more natural communication for people who have suffered speech loss
DeepMind has announced its partnership with the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Europe’s flagship laboratory for the life sciences, to make the most complete and accurate database yet of predicted protein structure models for the human proteome.
A new UC Riverside study shows that a type of insecticide made for commercial plant nurseries is harmful to a typical bee even when applied well below the label rate.
Twice as much carbon is stored in the soil as it is in vegetation on land, but how it is accumulated and processed by microorganisms is not known. This is an important element for modeling carbon in climate science and soil fertility management.
Physical bioenergetics, a new field of study, examines how much energy cells are using and how they apportion that energy.