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Study sheds light on how muscles try to fight effects of ageing
PA Media: Science via Yahoo News· 2 months agoResearchers have shed new light on how muscles work to maintain function for as long as possible...
‘The Catalyst’ Review: The RNA Renaissance
The Wall Street Journal· 2 weeks agoBOOKSHELF Initially dismissed as a wealthy and frivolous socialite, Charles Swann in Marcel Proust’s “In Search of Lost Time” eventually transforms from...
Octopuses 'rewire' their brains to adapt to different ocean temperatures
Live Science via Yahoo News· 1 year agoA yellowish octopus against a black background California two-spot octopuses (Octopus bimaculoides)...
Your genetic code has lots of 'words' for the same thing – information theory may help explain the...
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 11 months agoThe same amino acid can be encoded by anywhere from one to six different strings of letters in the...
Visualizing the inside of cells at previously impossible resolutions provides vivid insights into...
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 1 year agoCryo-electron tomography shows what molecules look like in high-resolution – in this case, the virus...
Endoplasmic Reticulum: Rough ER vs. Smooth ER
HowStuffWorks via Yahoo News· 7 months agoThe part of your cells that helps you recover from a hangover is shaped like a maze of tubes and is made of two parts — the rough endoplasmic reticulum...
What is the smallest unit of life? Get to know what makes up all living things.
USA TODAY via Yahoo Finance· 1 year agoFrom plants and bacteria to animals and humans, our world is filled with many living things. In fact, there are approximately 8.7 million species of plants and animals in existence, and only ...
Where the heck did all those structures inside complex cells come from?
Knowable Magazine via Yahoo News· 8 months agoScientists agree that eons ago, a bacterium took up residence inside another cell and became its...
These tiny worms are no match for carnivorous fungi
Popular Science via Yahoo News· 7 months agoAn aquatic nematode living in pond water among cyanobacteria. The small worms are sometimes trapped and eaten by carnivorous fungi. If nematodes have...
What is mRNA? The messenger molecule that's been in every living cell for billions of years is the...
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 1 year agoMRNA is an important messenger, carrying the instructions for life from DNA to the rest of the cell....
