Over the past two decades, researchers have learned that DNA inside the cell nucleus naturally folds into a network of ...

Lurking among them is a “giant” virus, a genetic behemoth that blurs the line between the living and the inanimate. When this ...

Known as viral eukaryogenesis, this idea was first proposed in 2001 by Masaharu Takemura, a molecular biologist at the Tokyo University of Science. He suggested the nucleus of eukaryotic cells arose ...

A novel F-actin-binding motif consisting of an α-helix hairpin from a Legionella pneumophila lysine fatty acyltransferase has the potential to be developed as an F-actin probe.

Researchers at Forschungszentrum Jülich and Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf have developed a tool that could significantly transform genome research: Helixer identifies genes directly from DNA ...

January 2026Researchers at Forschungszentrum Jülich and Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf have developed a tool that could ...

Scientists at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital and Northwestern University identified a previously unknown treatment opportunity for sickle cell disease and β-thalassemia. The discovery, ...

We assembled the yerba mate nuclear genome, plastome, and mitogenome to chromosome level, and also the nuclear rDNAs, to achieve a comprehensively annotated original set of high-quality genetic ...

The authors examined the frequency of alternative splicing across prokaryotes and eukaryotes and found that the rate of alternative splicing varies with taxonomic groups and genome coding content.

Creative Commons (CC): This is a Creative Commons license. Attribution (BY): Credit must be given to the creator. It is an exciting time for researchers working to link proteins to their functions.