On May 12, 2025, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit vacated-in-part and remanded a Patent Trial and Appeal Board (“PTAB”) decision in ...

Addressing the distinction between conception and reduction to practice and the requirement for written description in the ...

Scientists have uncovered a surprisingly rich microbial diversity thriving in some of the harshest soils on Earth — those of ...

Two important concepts in evolutionary biology, mutualism and altruism, were first made famous by the colorful anarchist ...

Machine learning approaches have demonstrated some success in modeling protein sequences and prokaryotic genomes. The complexity of eukaryotic DNA, with its long-range interactions and regulatory ...

While prokaryotic cells do not have membrane-bound structures, they do have distinct cellular regions (Figure 1). In prokaryotic cells, DNA bundles together in a region called the nucleoid. Primitive ...

Organisation of DNA: Another distinction between prokaryotes and eukaryotes becomes apparent when considering the amount and organisation of the genetic material. Prokaryotes characteristically ...

As different as these multicellular creatures might be, their bodies are all composed of the same type of cell — eukaryotic cells, which enclose their DNA in a nucleus and possess energy-producing ...

Deanna earned their PhD in cellular biology from McGill University in 2020 and has a professional background in medical writing. They are an associate science editor at The Scientist. View Full ...

And though it starts out as a simple molecule like long prokaryotic and eukaryotic Agos, the activation similarities end there. Using cryogenic electron microscopy, researchers identified SPARTA’s ...

The new study demonstrates that RNA-guided DNA-cutting mechanisms ... highlighted similarities between prokaryotic OMEGA systems and Fanzor proteins in eukaryotes, suggesting that the Fanzor ...