Biology

Silencing a galactan synthase gene in pea causes severe growth defects and a compensatory rise in extensin, revealing that this...

A new review in Stress Biology explains how fungi convert nutrient limitation and environmental stress into controlled developmental switches toward...

Researchers engineered Bacillus methanolicus with a heterologous phosphoketolase to boost methanol-to-biomass yields by up to 20 percent while cutting biogenic...

Egyptian researchers found that the alcohol-aversion drug disulfiram synergizes with fluconazole, downregulates the Cdr1 efflux pump, and inhibits biofilm formation...

A synthetic azobenzenoid compound called CaCS2 shows broad-spectrum activity against Leishmania amazonensis and Trypanosoma cruzi with low human cell toxicity,...

A comparative genomics study of gilthead seabream and European seabass reveals that duplicated oxidative phosphorylation genes retained from an ancient...

Urban Kelp Gulls can learn a novel foraging task by watching a companion, with adult observers solving a puzzle box...

A massive UK Biobank study shows that fat infiltrating the thigh muscles predicts early death and disease across multiple organ...

A study of six soil strains shows that standard genomic similarity metrics often disagree when drawing bacterial species boundaries, exposing...

Researchers have developed RBProximity-CLIP, a technique that combines APEX2 proximity labeling with 4-thiouridine-enhanced crosslinking to map RNA-binding protein interactions at...