As climate change and human activity threaten freshwater ecosystems like lakes and rivers, it's more important than ever to know how the species who inhabit them are being impacted. But traditional methods of monitoring species, ...
Ecology
Sep 4, 2025
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A study led by Prof. Zhang Daoyuan from the Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has uncovered the phosphorylation-mediated regulatory mechanisms of desiccation tolerance of Syntrichia ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 2, 2025
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Our cells produce a variety of proteins, each with a specific role that, in many cases, means that they need to be in a particular part of the cell where that role is needed. One of the ways that cells ensure certain proteins ...
Cell & Microbiology
Aug 27, 2025
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It's known as biology's central dogma: All living organisms' genetic information is stored in DNA, which is transcribed into RNA, which is translated into proteins that perform nearly all essential tasks in a cell. A tiny ...
Cell & Microbiology
Aug 5, 2025
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When we think about the blueprint of life, we tend to focus on DNA—the genetic code stored in every cell of our bodies. But DNA is only part of the story. For those instructions to matter, they must be read and turned into ...
Cell & Microbiology
Aug 5, 2025
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In eukaryotic cells, the nucleolus is the central site for ribosome biogenesis. It is composed of distinct subcompartments: fibrillar center (FC), dense fibrillar component (DFC), periphery of DFC (PDFC), and granular component ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jul 29, 2025
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Inside our cells, ribosomes—the tireless "protein factories" of life—have just shown off a new skill they haven't used in billions of years. A research team has become the first in the world to successfully expand the ...
Biotechnology
Jul 8, 2025
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Proteins are the infinitely varied chemicals that make cells work, and science has a pretty good idea how they are made. But a critical aspect underlying the machinery of protein manufacture has long been hidden inside the ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jul 2, 2025
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A University of California, Riverside-led team has made an advance in the basic understanding of Plasmodium falciparum, the parasite responsible for the deadliest form of human malaria, that could make novel, highly targeted ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jul 1, 2025
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Ribosomes are tiny molecular machines inside all living cells that build proteins, and ribosome biogenesis is the complex, multi-step process by which they are made. During brain development, neural stem cell proliferation ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jun 28, 2025
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