New research challenges the view that proteins are the only key to evolution, highlighting the importance of lipids.

An international team of microbiologists from the Medical University of Graz, the DSMZ—German Collection of Microorganisms ...

We employ fully reconstituted yeast and human DNA replication systems to investigate the structure and biochemical mechanism of the eukaryotic replication machinery. A particular focus of the lab is ...

Robert Hettich with new mass spectrometry instrumentation at ORNL. Credit: Carlos Jones/ORNL, U.S. Dept. of Energy Robert ...

The nuclear envelope is a regulated membrane barrier that separates the nucleus from the cytosol in eukaryotes. Although the NE is often ... such as micronuclei and DNA bridges, that form around ...

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An international research team has provided a detailed insight into how the spatial organization of genetic material is established in the cell nucleus of early embryos within the first hours after ...

An international collaboration has published groundbreaking research, shedding light on the most significant increase in complexity in the history of life's evolution on Earth: the origin of the ...

One of the challenges of fighting pancreatic cancer is finding ways to penetrate the organ's dense tissue to define the ...

Knowing how human DNA changes over generations is essential to estimating genetic disease risks and understanding how we ...

Understanding the material basis of adaptive evolution has been a central goal in biology dating back to at least the time of ...