Life Sciences

The Molecular High-Speed Origami Of Protein Folding

Proteins, those workhorses of the cell responsible for almost all biological functions, have to be ...

Article - News Staff - May 10 2014 - 5:05pm

Cell Transplants Fix Biological Clock

considered as the biological clock in all mammals, including humans. A new study has found that when this ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 12 2015 - 11:40am

Comparative Genomics Shows Squid Optimize DNA 'Blueprint' Through RNA Editing

Humans, worms and flies are all completely different organisms and yet we have a more or less ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 21 2015 - 7:30am

Muscle Performance And High Altitude Adaptation In Highland Mice

Life has adapted to all sorts of extreme environments on Earth, among them, animals like the deer ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 8 2015 - 9:51am

Not A Slow March: Enzyme Evolution Rethink

proteins vital to all life on Earth. Enzymes catalyze a vast array of biologically relevant chemical ...

Article - News Staff - May 3 2015 - 8:01am

Hibernating Bears Protect Bones By Reducing Resorption- And That May Help Astronauts

months in zero gravity, the risks are serious. But there is an animal that has already solved all of the ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 14 2015 - 9:00am

Elephants Blamed For Tree Losses In African Nature Reserve

elephants, from hunting and habitat destruction, but they have no problem at all exhausting the wildlife ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 29 2015 - 4:19pm

Stem Cells Likely To Be Safe For Use In Regenerative Medicine

cells that can give rise to all tissues of the body-- will develop normally once transplanted into an ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 18 2015 - 7:28am

How Two-toned Cats Get A Piebald Patch

too slowly to reach all parts of the embryo before it is fully formed but a new study found otherwise. ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 6 2016 - 12:30pm

Fecal Transplant Shows Gut Microbes Cause Obesity- In Rats, Anyway

Gut microbes are all the rage and scholars everywhere are latching onto the fad. If you are over ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 9 2016 - 12:37pm