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How Molecular Cooperation Between Polymers and Primitive Membranes Enabled
1+ hour, 25+ min ago (212+ words) The key idea is that hydroxy acids can polymerize into short chains, but these oligomers typically hydrolyze and fragment rapidly in aqueous environments. By attaching hydroxy acids directly to lipid-like amphiphiles, the researchers created conjugates in which the amphiphilic domain…...
Nagoya Institute Scientists Identify Molecular Basis of Red-Green Color
2+ hour, 45+ min ago (275+ words) A new study led by Associate Professor Kota Katayama (Nagoya Institute of Technology) analyzed red- and green-sensitive cone pigments from the crab-eating macaque, a model closely matching human cone biology. By obtaining three-dimensional structural information in the dark state, the…...
Vector-Based Olfactory Navigation Strategy Revealed in Drosophila Flies
2+ hour, 45+ min ago (254+ words) Flies hunting airborne odor plumes do more than follow scent—they “edge track,” repeatedly steering along the moving boundary between odor and no-odor. In a new Nature study, researchers probe how small insects build and refine a memory of plume…...
Study Reveals How Plants Detect When to Grow or Pause
5+ hour, 53+ min ago (360+ words) Plants build organs by coordinating “initiation” and “growth,” but how one signal can drive two opposite outcomes has been unclear. A new study reveals a timed hormone handoff that allows plants to first suppress an architecture-promoting pathway and then activate…...
Nuclear Escape Accelerates as Stress Builds Inside the Atomic Nucleus
7+ hour, 27+ min ago (395+ words) Under prolonged stretch, epithelial tissues can’t simply “hold on”—they remodel. A new Nature Physics study from IBEC reveals how cells respond to mechanical stress lasting hours or days by reorganizing their keratin cytoskeleton into large multicellular networks, ultimately changing…...
Paper Concealed Death of 6-Year-Old Daughter...Controversy over Gene-Editing Clinical Trial in China
12+ hour, 5+ min ago (244+ words) Published 28 Jul.2026 09:10(KST) A prominent Chinese scholar has come under fire after it was revealed that he published a paper in an international academic journal without disclosing the death of a six-year-old patient during a brain gene-editing clinical trial. The…...
Scientists Discover Deepest Marine Ecosystem Under Pacific Ocean
16+ hour, 29+ min ago (250+ words) sekbernews.id Researchers from the Institute of Deep-sea Science and Engineering at the Chinese Academy of Sciences uncovered the deepest animal ecosystem ever recorded, reaching depths down to 9,533 meters in the Kuril-Kamchatka and western Aleutian Trenches Operating from China's crewed…...
Recombinase-Based Genome Mapping Enables Large-Scale Structure Profiling of
10+ hour, 18+ min ago (344+ words) A new protocol promises to turn the static architecture of mammalian genomes into something far more experimentally tractable. Understanding how genome structure shapes gene regulation and cellular behavior has long been a central goal of functional genomics, but existing approaches…...
Transformative embryo research: Who gets to contribute? | PET
19+ hour, 46+ min ago (391+ words) The study, published in Nature, uses base editing (see BioNews 848, 924, 1035 and 1285) to investigate the role of the gene NANOG in the earliest stages of human development. Named after Tír na nÓg, the mythical Celtic 'Land of the Young', NANOG was…...
Base editing in human embryos: Why patient voices matter | PET
19+ hour, 46+ min ago (352+ words) In our recent study published in Nature, my colleagues and I make use of novel genome editing techniques to better understand human embryology (see BioNews 1345 and 1349). There has already been speculation about the future applications of this work, but any…...