An international team led by scientists of GSI/FAIR in Darmstadt, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and the Helmholtz ...

Like humans and other complex multicellular organisms, single-celled bacteria can fall ill and fight off viral infections. A ...

Consistent with a larger protein complex at work, Blakely's team found that mutations in all worm BBSome homologs produced ...

Apomixis is a form of asexual reproduction that allows hybrid rice to propagate by seeds. Recently, a collaborative research ...

Cannabis use in adolescents may lead to thinning of the cerebral cortex, a key brain region for cognitive function.

Viruses are also dominant in terms of genetic variety. Indeed, the greatest number of unique genes without detectable homologs in other genomes is found in viral genomes (Kristensen et al.

In yeast, an early step of the meiotic program is the introduction of double-strand breaks into chromosomes by the Spo11 protein to promote recombination between homologs. It is not clear when meiotic ...

A team has clarified how in plants the boric acid channels, the conduits for the necessary element boron, are transported to the plasma membrane.

The Fanzor protein family, comprised of Fanzor1 and Fanzor2, are homologs of TnpB found in eukaryotes and eukaryotic viruses. Elizabeth Kellogg, PhD, St. Jude Department of Structural Biology ...

Botanists have come to understand the channels and transporters involved in the uptake and transport of nutrients, yet how are they positioned where they need to be?

The KNS3-KNSTH1-KNSTH2 complex acts as a cargo receptor for the transport of boric acid channels from the endoplasmic ...