Researchers in Singapore and Spain have gained new insights into the task of a tumor-suppressor protein in fruit flies that help the understanding of some human cancer cells. The research, releaed in PLOS Biology, might eventually lead researchers toward current cancer therapies and prevention. Duke-NUS Medical Institution researchers collaborated with associates from the Institute for […]
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A group of scientists from Helmholtz Munich has identified a new use for vitamin K, typically recognized for its part in blood clotting. In its fully reduced configuration, the researchers discovered that vitamin K operates as an anti-oxidant by efficiently inhibiting ferroptotic cell death. Ferroptosis is a natural kind of cell death in which cellular
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Science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke’s 3rd law states that “any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” Indika Rajapakse, Ph.D., is a believer. The engineer and mathematician now discovers himself a biologist. And he believes the charm of blending these 3 disciplines is crucial to unraveling how cells function. His latest development is a
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When the COVID pandemic began, it was an international crisis for humans– but as humans took shelter, reports of wildlife reclaiming what were once human-dominated spaces abounded. But biologists are noticing the patterns were not repeated around the world. Last year, a research group led by University of Manitoba conservation biology professor Nicola Koper found
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Over the past 2 years, machine learning has revolutionized protein structure prediction. Currently, three papers in Science describe a similar revolution in protein design. In the current papers, biologists at the University of Washington School of Medicine show that machine learning can be utilized to create protein molecules much more accurately and quickly than previously
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Scientists get long pondered how and when the evolution of prokaryotes to eukaryotes happened. A collaborative research group from Tohoku University and the College of Tokyo may have offered some answers after discovering new kinds of microfossils dating 1.9 billion years. Details of their findings were released in the journal Precambrian Research on August 19,
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Researchers share that they have solved an evolutionary puzzle of a 500 million-year-old microscopic, creature with a mouth yet no anus. When discovered in 2017, it was reported that the small sack-like aquatic creature’s fossil might be humans’ earliest-known ancestor. The early creature, Saccorhytus Coronarius, was tentatively placed into a group called the Deuterostomes. A
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Biotechnologist Pascale Daran-Lapujade and also her team at Delft College of Technology managed to construct human muscle genes in the DNA of baker’s yeast. This is the 1st time researchers have successfully placed such a vital human feature into a yeast cell. Their research was released in Cell Reports. The feature that Daran-Lapujade’s lab included
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In the beginning, there was boredom. Following the emergence of cellular life on the planet, some 3.5 billion yrs earlier, simple cells lacking a nucleus and other detailed internal framework dominated the planet. Matters would remain largely unchanged regarding evolutionary development in these so-called prokaryotic cells– the bacteria and archaea– for another billion and also
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Scientists in Australia and the United States are starting a multi-million dollar project to bring the Tasmanian tiger back from extinction. The last known Tasmanian Tiger, technically named Thylacine, passed away in the 1930s. The group behind the effort claims it can accomplish this using stem cells and gene-editing technology. The first Thylacine may be
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