Six New Tools for the Study of Protein, DNA and RNA Motifs
Researchers from the University of Queensland, Brisbane and the University of Washington, Seattle launched in 2009 the MEME Suite, a web-based service for the study...
Basic Research
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Discovery of Nanotubes that Mediate Stem Cell Signaling
A new kind of microtubule-based nanotubes has been discovered by scientists at the University of Michigan Life Sciences Institute and the University of Texas Southwestern...
Basic Research
Epigenetic marks associated with aging can predict cancer
A recent study demonstrates that epigenetic marks generally associated with aging are actually indicators of cancer. Scientists from the RWTH Aachen University Medical School have...
Biomedicine
A new photoactivatable CRISPR/Cas9 engineered
The genome editing tool CRISPR/Cas has been engineered in many different ways since it first appeared. The last innovation comes from the University of Tokyo,...
Bioengineering
Scientists Generate a New Species Mutating the Pheromone and Pheromone Receptor Genes
Scientists from Osaka City University have succeeded in creating a new yeast species with just two mutations. Chikashi Shimoda and coworkers mutated the pheromone gene...
Bioengineering
New Method Predicts Protein Motion from Static Structures
Researchers from Oregon Science and Health University have gone further in the understanding of protein motion. The study “Parsimony in Protein Conformational Change” has been published...
Bioinformatics
Possible 5th DNA base discovered
Scientists from Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute have recently published in Nature Chemical Biologythe discovery of what could be the fifth DNA base, 5-formylcytosine (5fC...
News
Two Years into Making Reviewers Relevant
Two years ago a group of researchers set out to create a platform to give reviewers credit for the countless hours of peer review that...
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