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Life’s Building Blocks
Focusing on the molecules and cells that make up living things
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Life’s Building Blocks
Jan 20, 2023
When cholesterol helps to hear
Investigations in zebrafish uncover a gene that enables hearing by…
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eLife
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Life’s Building Blocks
Jan 10, 2023
The power of the curl
New observations reveal ways to increase the pulling force exerted by shortening…
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Life’s Building Blocks
May 18, 2022
Tracing a toxic target
A molecule used to study a specific cellular compartment may also act elsewhere…
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Life’s Building Blocks
May 9, 2022
Getting in shape
The way in which actin filaments join together helps maintain the shape of a cell’s…
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Life’s Building Blocks
Mar 11, 2022
Counting mitochondria
A new tool that can easily measure mitochondrial DNA levels in the blood helps…
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eLife
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Life’s Building Blocks
Mar 8, 2022
Gatekeeping heavy metals
Structural analysis of a protein responsible for metal transport reveals new…
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Life’s Building Blocks
Feb 25, 2022
Opening and exposing DNA
A genome-wide analysis challenges a long-standing theory about how cells…
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Life’s Building Blocks
Jun 8, 2021
The moonlighting gatekeeper
In fruit flies, proteins that control molecular traffic also help to…
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Feb 15, 2021
Rebuilding antibody evolution
Tracking the genetic changes that allow antibodies to target…
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eLife
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Oct 11, 2020
The two faces of MondoA
In zebrafish embryos, the glucose sensor MondoA has a double life controlling…
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