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Hidden Moss Worlds Thrive on China’s Degraded Karst Landscapes
11+ min ago (96+ words) Beneath the cracked, chalky surfaces of southern China’s degraded karst terrain, an unexpected biological empire has been quietly holding the ground together. A new study of biological soil crusts—thin, living skins of mosses, lichens, algae, and cyanobacteria that bind…...
Cofilin-1 Dosage Governs Muscle Cell Differentiation and Fusion, Study
11+ min ago (632+ words) Every time a muscle fiber forms, a single cell must perform one of the most dramatic architectural transformations in biology. A myoblast — a committed muscle precursor cell — has to abandon division, elongate, and then fuse with its neighbors to build…...
Cryo-EM Reveals How Polycomb Repressive Complex 1 Assembles, Works and
24+ min ago (651+ words) In the crowded nucleus of every human cell, the two-metre stretch of DNA in each chromosome is constantly being read, folded and annotated by armies of protein complexes....
Biodegradable Hydrogel Beads Keep Beneficial Fungus Alive and Boost Pepper
30+ min ago (657+ words) Beneficial fungi such as Trichoderma longibrachiatum have long been celebrated as natural allies of farmers, suppressing soil-borne pathogens and stimulating plant growth without the environmental baggage of synthetic agrochemicals....
Iron-Linked Cell Death May Explain Why Autism Risk Hits Male Mice Harder
2+ hour, 5+ min ago (55+ words) A single drug taken during pregnancy may leave sharply different fingerprints on the developing brains of boys and girls, and a new study points to an unexpected culprit: a form of iron-driven cell death that appears to strike the male…...
Deadly Wheat Fungus Reveals a Hidden Molecular Switch That Controls Its
2+ hour, 33+ min ago (96+ words) Scientists have uncovered a previously hidden partnership inside one of the world’s most destructive crop pathogens, and the discovery could reshape how farmers fight a disease that devastates wheat harvests and poisons grain supplies. A research team working on Fusarium…...
New R Package TrIdent Automates Detection of Virus-Mediated DNA Transfer in
2+ hour, 39+ min ago (626+ words) Scientists have unveiled a new computational tool that promises to transform how researchers study one of the most important yet least visible engines of bacterial evolution: transduction, the process by which virus-like particles package and shuttle DNA between bacteria....
Honeybee Imports May Be Reshaping Local Bee Genetics, Modelling Study Warns
2+ hour, 51+ min ago (659+ words) The honeybee hives dotted across European and North American landscapes look timeless, but the genetic makeup of the bees inside them is changing faster than most beekeepers realise....
Springer Nature Honors Standout Journal Editors With 2026 Distinction
3+ hour ago (594+ words) Springer Nature has opened the nomination window for its Editor of Distinction Awards 2026, an annual program that recognizes editors across the publisher’s vast journal portfolio for exceptional service to the research community....
Graph Diffusion Extends Metabolomic Signals to Unmeasured Metabolites
3+ hour, 15+ min ago (55+ words) One of the most stubborn limitations in metabolomics is not measuring molecules but making sense of what the measurements mean. Modern instruments can quantify hundreds of metabolites in a single serum sample, yet even the best platforms capture only a…...