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Biologists Glean Insight into Repetitive Protein Sequences

A computational analysis reveals that many repetitive sequences are shared across proteins and are similar in species from bacteria to humans.

Study: Astronomers Risk Misinterpreting Planetary Signals in JWST Data

Refining current opacity models will be key to unearthing details of exoplanet properties — and signs of life — in data from the powerful new telescope.

Study Reveals How Environment and State Are Integrated to Control Behavior

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.

How the Brain Focuses on What’s in Mind

When holding information in mind, neural activity is more focused when and where there are bursts of gamma frequency rhythms.

Whole-genome sequencing technique helps identify, treat mitochondrial diseases

The mitochondria are organelles within the cells of all eukaryotic organisms that produce the energy to fuel the cells.

Turning Carbon Dioxide into Valuable Products

Assistant Professor Ariel Furst and her colleagues are looking to DNA to help guide the process.

The Tiny Nanotube That Can

Adding to nanotubes' abilities: superconductors and solar cells

Putting Liquid Biopsies on Solid Ground: Cancer Diagnosis from a Milliliter of Blood

If larger studies confirm the results of a Weizmann Institute innovation, diagnosing cancer may one day be as easy as taking blood

Desperate Cancer Cells

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.

Creating the Cells That Can Be Everything and More

Removing a newly discovered “lock” from DNA’s packaging can restore limitless abilities to early cells

GORKY Protein Turns Bitter Tomatoes Sweet

A huge new database helps reveal tomato riddles and may facilitate the breeding of delicious, disease-resistant tomatoes

The Soil Talks Back

Learning to decipher this language might help grow better crops or increase production of plant-based drugs

Landmark Study Shows Consistent Approaches to Surgical Innovation Are Urgently Needed

A consistent approach to NHS policies on surgical innovation is urgently needed, a landmark study by University of Bristol researchers has shown.

Sexual Enjoyment Following Childbirth Is Not Altered by Different Delivery Methods, Research Suggests

Sexual enjoyment in the years following childbirth is unaffected by the way in which the baby is delivered, according to new research.

Scientists Relieved to Discover ‘Curious’ Creature with No Anus Is Not Earliest Human Ancestor

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.

Weird and Wonderful World of Fungi Shaped by Evolutionary Bursts, Study Finds

Scientists at the University of Bristol have discovered that the vast anatomical variety of fungi stems from evolutionary increases in multicellular complexity.

Robot Helps Reveal How Ants Pass on Knowledge

Scientists have developed a small robot to understand how ants teach one another.

Volcanic Super Eruptions Are Millions of Years in the Making – Followed by Swift Surge

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.

Recovery from a Hip Fracture Varies Widely Among NHS Hospitals, Study Finds

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.

Brain Activity During Sleep Differs in Young People with Genetic Risk of Psychiatric Disorders

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.