A computational analysis reveals that many repetitive sequences are shared across proteins and are similar in species from bacteria to humans.
Refining current opacity models will be key to unearthing details of exoplanet properties — and signs of life — in data from the powerful new telescope.
A simple animal model shows how stimuli and states such as smells, stressors, and satiety converge in an olfactory neuron to guide food-seeking behavior.
When holding information in mind, neural activity is more focused when and where there are bursts of gamma frequency rhythms.
The mitochondria are organelles within the cells of all eukaryotic organisms that produce the energy to fuel the cells.
Assistant Professor Ariel Furst and her colleagues are looking to DNA to help guide the process.
Adding to nanotubes' abilities: superconductors and solar cells
If larger studies confirm the results of a Weizmann Institute innovation, diagnosing cancer may one day be as easy as taking blood
Desperate times call for desperate measures, says an ancient proverb, but whoever coined it surely could not have imagined that it would hold so true on such small scales.
Removing a newly discovered “lock” from DNA’s packaging can restore limitless abilities to early cells
A huge new database helps reveal tomato riddles and may facilitate the breeding of delicious, disease-resistant tomatoes
Learning to decipher this language might help grow better crops or increase production of plant-based drugs
A consistent approach to NHS policies on surgical innovation is urgently needed, a landmark study by University of Bristol researchers has shown.
Sexual enjoyment in the years following childbirth is unaffected by the way in which the baby is delivered, according to new research.
An international team of researchers have discovered that a mysterious microscopic creature from which humans were thought to descend is part of a different family tree.
Scientists at the University of Bristol have discovered that the vast anatomical variety of fungi stems from evolutionary increases in multicellular complexity.
Scientists have developed a small robot to understand how ants teach one another.
Researchers at the University of Bristol and Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre have discovered that super-eruptions occur when huge accumulations of magma deep in the Earth’s crust, formed over millions of years, move rapidly to the surface disrupting pre-existing rock.
How well patients recover after a hip fracture varies enormously between NHS hospitals in England and Wales and in some hospitals one in ten patients died within a month of their fracture, a new study has found.
Young people living with a genetic alteration that increases the risk of psychiatric disorders have markedly different brain activity during sleep, a study led by researchers from the Universities of Bristol and Cardiff published in the journal eLife shows.