1 Department of Ophthalmology, Tufts Medical Center, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, United States 2 Chapman University School of Pharmacy, Chapman University, Irvine, CA, United ...

This protective sheath, called the glycocalyx, consists of sugar-rich proteins (glycoproteins). As the first contact to the environment, it determines how cells adhere to surfaces, move and sense ...

Rebecca Roberts is a science writer and communicator. She earned her PhD in molecular biology from the University of the Sunshine Coast in Australia and completed a two-year postdoctoral fellowship at ...

Here, we investigated soil prokaryotic communities from Chinese northern grasslands on a scale up to 4000 km in both alpine and temperate biotas. Prokaryotic similarities increased over geographic ...