Skoltech researchers and their colleagues from Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany, Nanjing University of China, ...

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The human genome has to be carefully organized so it will fit inside of the nuclei of cells, while also remaining accessible ...

Cities are known to shape the evolution of wildlife within them, but according to a study of European cities published in the ...

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A bacterial defense system called SPARDA employs kamikaze-like tactics to protect cells and could be useful in future ...

Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University have discovered a way to target RNA that could lead to new treatment options for ...

ASTANA – The ethnic history of the Kazakh people is complex, shaped by centuries of migration, cultural interaction and ...

A genetic study reveals that it is not coffee itself, but how long caffeine remains in the blood, that influences the risk of diabetes.

In A Nutshell Egg geometry drives development: The curved shape of a zebrafish egg causes unequal cell divisions, creating larger cells near the animal pole and smaller cells at the margin—a size ...

Cancer doesn’t evolve by pure chaos. Scientists have developed a powerful new method that reveals the hidden rules guiding how cancer cells gain and lose whole chromosomes—massive genetic shifts that ...

A research team at The University of Osaka revealed that the loss of heterochromatin can cause a chain reaction leading to ...