Scientific publishing and the tools around it – preprints, peer review, open access, and the software researchers use to read and cite.
202 articles
Acquisition of antibiotic resistance confers bacteria better growth and increased virulence. The controversial claim comes from researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical...
A research team from University of California at Berkeley has developed a technique that makes gene editing much easier and cheaper. Rebecca Heald has directed...
Scientists from Lomonosov Moscow State University have strengthened the fractal globule model of chromatin packing. In their Physical Review Letters paper, the researchers present a...
DNA origami is more promising than ever thanks to the work of Hao Yan’s team from Arizona State University’s Biodesign Institute. Their innovative technique allows...
Human telomerase reverse transcriptase (hTERT) promoter mutations can cause oncogenesis in somatic cells. The molecular mechanism, eluded so far, consists on failing to silence TERT...
Researchers from the Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati (SISSA) in Trieste, Italy have found a simple but accurate method to study RNA dynamics. In...
For the first time in history, scientists have found two genetic variants linked to major depression disorder (MDD). The study, published in Nature, has been...
Based on studies on lab-grown cerebral organoids, autism could be linked to an excess of inhibitory neurons. Brain models derived from the skin cells of...
