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6+ hour, 23+ min ago  (172+ words) Protein structures (IMAGE) Eurek Alert! An almost perfect match: Two protein subunit structures, one from a gut bacterium and one from a marine relative, overlaid on top of each other. The striking overlap reveals how conserved this protein is across…...

6+ hour, 23+ min ago  (103+ words) The complex sugars in brown algae, such as these pictured during fieldwork in Roscoff by co-author Nicole von Possel, are among the hardest to break down by bacteria in the ocean, which makes them important for carbon storage. Marine relatives…...

10+ hour, 14+ min ago  (881+ words) In the realm of cellular biology, death is not a simple cessation but a complex, regulated process vital to organismal health. Among the various programmed cell death modalities, necroptosis stands out as a finely tuned mechanism implicated in myriad physiological…...

9+ hour, 9+ min ago  (877+ words) In a groundbreaking advancement poised to transform cancer diagnostics and therapeutics, a team led by Algov, Van Heest, Hopton, and colleagues has unveiled an innovative platform that maps proteolytic activity with unprecedented precision. Their work, published in Nature Chemical Biology…...

7+ hour, 3+ min ago  (231+ words) May 11, 2026 07: 00 ET "| Source: 4basebio 4basebio ("4basebio" or the "Company") With the growth of gene editing and with a particular need for complex "knock-in" applications, the demand for longer, purer and safer DNA templates has increased exponentially. 4basebio's ss DNA offering enables the production…...

15+ hour, 54+ min ago  (1043+ words) In recent years, protein language models (p LMs) have revolutionized the field of protein engineering, opening new horizons that were previously unattainable through conventional scientific methods. These sophisticated artificial intelligence tools can predict, design, and manipulate protein sequences, potentially crafting…...

22+ hour, 11+ min ago  (234+ words) May 11, 2026 | Monday | News The new technology, called Spatial Perturb-Seq, overcomes a major limitation of conventional genomic methods, which typically require tissues to be broken down into individual cells. While effective for analysing isolated cells, these approaches lose critical information about…...

1+ day, 8+ hour ago  (119+ words) Time: May 12th, 9 a. m. PDT/12 p. m. EDTjoin Dr. N'ria Ros-Rocher is a CNRS research associate at Institut Pasteur. She conducts multidisciplinary research on the origin of multicellularity that elucidates how environmental factors regulate multicellular behaviors in close animal relatives. She also develops genetic…...

1+ day, 8+ hour ago  (402+ words) When an asteroid as big as'Mount Everest struck Earth 66 million years ago, it wiped out all non-avian dinosaurs and roughly a third of life on the planet. But many plants survived the devastation. In a new study publishing May 8 in…...

3+ day, 4+ hour ago  (973+ words) In the intricate web of global carbon cycling, dissolved organic matter (DOM) represents a vital, yet enigmatic component. Found abundantly in soils, freshwater ecosystems, wetlands, and sediments, DOM comprises a complex suite of carbon-containing molecules that play a multifaceted role…...