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4+ hour, 25+ min ago   (855+ words) A landmark international study has delivered the most comprehensive picture to date of the genetic architecture of multiple sclerosis, combining genome-wide association data from individuals across multiple ancestries with cutting-edge multiomics analyses to reveal where, and in which cell types,…...

5+ hour ago   (83+ words) In a discovery that is reshaping how scientists think about the biology of human reproduction, researchers have unveiled the molecular architecture and three-dimensional spatial organization of proteasomes inside the nucleus of human sperm cells. The findings, published in Nature Structural…...

7+ hour, 38+ min ago   (946+ words) In an era when antibiotic-free farming is no longer a niche aspiration but a regulatory and commercial reality, scientists are turning their attention to the trillions of microbes that inhabit the guts of food-producing animals....

7+ hour, 59+ min ago   (787+ words) When Martin J. Hodson walked through the door of Dafydd Wynn Parry’s office at Bangor University in Wales on 20 October 1980, he had no idea that the encounter would define the next four and a half decades of his scientific life....

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16+ hour, 13+ min ago   (92+ words) Pregnancy may be one of the most physiologically demanding experiences the human body can undergo, and a new review suggests that its biological costs are written into our cells. Writing in the journal Biogerontology, researchers Laura Collopy and Yana Kolenichenko…...

17+ hour, 31+ min ago   (78+ words) Every process that keeps a plant alive—from the immune responses that fend off pathogens to the signaling cascades that help roots find water—depends on proteins physically touching one another. These countless molecular handshakes, collectively known as the protein…...

1+ day, 48+ min ago   (714+ words) In a discovery that could reshape how one of the world’s most treasured medicinal orchids is propagated and conserved, researchers at the University of Kerala have isolated and characterized a fungal endophyte living quietly inside the tissues of Vanda tessellata,…...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago   (744+ words) The humble tendon, that rope-like tissue anchoring muscle to bone, has long kept its molecular secrets hidden. Now a team of researchers in China has pulled back the curtain on the epigenetic machinery that defines tenocytes, the specialized cells responsible…...

1+ day, 3+ hour ago   (104+ words) In a finding that could reshape one of aquaculture’s most controversial practices, researchers in Uganda and South Africa have shown that ordinary pine pollen—the fine, powdery substance produced in vast quantities by pine trees—can transform an all-female population…...