The research indicates that the limitations on the size of proteins has been a crucial trigger in the development of life ...

The mystery of how multicellular life evolved has long baffled scientists, who’ve spent years trying to understand how ...

This study, though small (just 10 young men), suggests that cold exposure can activate molecular pathways associated with ...

About 4 billion years ago, Earth began to show signs of the conditions that allowed the first cells to take hold and populate ...

Soft tissues and biomolecules—such as proteins, lipids, and sugars—were believed to break down within a relatively short ...

Figure 1: Delivery of synthetic shRNA into Nanog-GFP mouse ES cells. M15 ES cell medium with leukemia inhibitory factor (LIF): DMEM Knockout (Gibco), 15% fetal bovine serum (FBS; StemCell ...

Pupils could also look at blood cells (providing an appropriate risk assessment has been completed). These short films will be relevant for teaching biology and science in general at KS3 and KS4 ...

This module will introduce students to the new and rapidly evolving interdisciplinary field of synthetic biology which aims to reprogram cellular and/or molecular systems at the genetic level for ...

But a study published yesterday (September 15) in Nature Cell Biology suggests that an interaction between T cells and antigen ... and protected populations of T cells with short telomeres from early ...