Eukaryogenesis happened abruptly, led by the tension of increasing gene length and the constraints on producing longer ...

However, all such sensors reported to date are based on prokaryotic cell-free systems and therefore do not function well at room temperature. There are also problems with riboswitch design that ...

In a new Nature Physics study, researchers have provided evidence of universal conformal invariance in living biological ...

Gene editing and many other useful biotechnology tools came from studies of bacteria fighting off viral invaders. But ...

As an independent investigator at the National Institutes of Health (NIH)—where she set up shop in 1976—Gottesman made major contributions in the field of prokaryotic gene regulation ... a single cell ...

Recombinant proteins are important components for a wide range of applications, from therapeutic antibodies and vaccines to diagnostics and enzymes. Microbiosci is committed to advancing the science ...

Through teaching, where I have to talk to the students about a variety of extreme environments, and what such environments ...

Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) is the movement of genetic material from one organism to another. In this article, we will discuss what HGT is, how it is used in research, how to detect it and the ...

DNA is often seen as the blueprint of life—carrying the code to govern the development and traits of an organism—but “there ...

All these systems share the same scale invariance." The researchers focused on four types of cells: two prokaryotic and two eukaryotic. Despite being structurally different, they were found to ...

So why do so many life-forms breathe oxygen? There are probably thousands of kinds of metabolisms, or chemical processes that maintain life, said Donald Canfield, a geobiologist at the University of ...