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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
Nov 12, 2022
Better muscles
A recently discovered protein, Isthmin-1, works a bit like insulin to increase the…
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Mar 10, 2022
Going the (nano) distance
A new method that can measure distances on the complex surfaces of pathogens…
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Oct 5, 2020
How do centrioles stay stable?
A new microscopy technique reveals how the protein WDR90 helps maintain…
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Aug 12, 2020
Powering the import of large cargoes
Scientific understanding of how large molecules are imported into…
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Jul 31, 2020
Microglia subsets identified
The brain contains two types of microglial immune cells: those that…
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Jul 6, 2020
Ready, steady, split
A new computer simulation tests what we know about the fundamental molecular…
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May 7, 2020
Interfering from all angles
The versatility of a protein that mimics DNA helps a virus hijack the…
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May 1, 2020
Mitochondria walk their own path to remove damaged proteins
Yeast genetics study reveals how…
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Apr 26, 2020
Why misshapen proteins are a death sentence for cells
Death receptors detect incorrectly folded…
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Apr 20, 2020
Evolution finds a way around DNA replication problems
Yeast study reveals new insights into how cells…
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