eLife in Life’s Building Blocks

Apr 17, 2018

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What makes animals groom themselves?

A new system that automatically detects grooming in fruit flies…

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eLife in Life’s Building Blocks

Feb 22, 2018

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Does life use random number generators?

Molecular noise is widespread in living cells, but do cells…

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eLife in Life’s Building Blocks

Apr 2, 2018

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When regeneration goes awry

Fruit flies that mistakenly grow extra wings reveal a new regulator of…

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eLife in Life’s Building Blocks

Mar 14, 2018

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The guardian of the genome

The protein p53 can protect the DNA from mutations.

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eLife in Life’s Building Blocks

Mar 10, 2018

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A “super-Mendelian” toolkit

Active genetic elements that change the rules of genetic inheritance could…

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eLife in Life’s Building Blocks

Jan 8, 2018

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Mapping R-loops in the human genome

New method maps these three-stranded structures almost to the…

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eLife in Life’s Building Blocks

May 10, 2018

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CUT60 — don’t cut the junk

Non-coding RNA sequences are important to keep the powerhouse of a cell…

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eLife in Life’s Building Blocks

May 25, 2018

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Starving? Time to go into storage

In cells that are in need of carbon, structures called proteasomes…

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eLife in Life’s Building Blocks

Mar 2, 2018

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A landscape for development

A simple model can provide useful insights into how tissues and organs…

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eLife in Life’s Building Blocks

Apr 15, 2018

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RNA devices rewire signalling pathways

Two-component RNA devices can trigger desired changes in gene…

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These were the top 10 stories published by Life’s Building Blocks in 2018. You can also dive into monthly archives for 2018 by using the calendar at the top of this page.