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6+ hour, 14+ min ago  (33+ words) Bringing together the tools to harness the potential of microbial diversity (IMAGE) Eurek Alert! Jovana De Biasio Cvorovic More on this News Release Bringing together the tools to harness the potential of microbial diversity...

9+ hour, 44+ min ago  (696+ words) The findings provide a fascinating look into crab evolution and explain why sideways walking crabs managed to thrive across beaches, reefs, mangroves, and oceans worldwide. Scientists now believe that this sideways movement evolved early in true crabs and remained effective…...

16+ hour, 33+ min ago  (298+ words) A study at Stellenbosch University in South Africa's Western Cape is using gene-editing technology to try to make grapevines more resistant to disease and drought, in work that researchers say could help protect crops as climate pressures intensify. The project,…...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago  (172+ words) Protein structures (IMAGE) Eurek Alert! An almost perfect match: Two protein subunit structures, one from a gut bacterium and one from a marine relative, overlaid on top of each other. The striking overlap reveals how conserved this protein is across…...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago  (103+ words) The complex sugars in brown algae, such as these pictured during fieldwork in Roscoff by co-author Nicole von Possel, are among the hardest to break down by bacteria in the ocean, which makes them important for carbon storage. Marine relatives…...

1+ day, 5+ hour ago  (881+ words) In the realm of cellular biology, death is not a simple cessation but a complex, regulated process vital to organismal health. Among the various programmed cell death modalities, necroptosis stands out as a finely tuned mechanism implicated in myriad physiological…...

1+ day, 4+ hour ago  (877+ words) In a groundbreaking advancement poised to transform cancer diagnostics and therapeutics, a team led by Algov, Van Heest, Hopton, and colleagues has unveiled an innovative platform that maps proteolytic activity with unprecedented precision. Their work, published in Nature Chemical Biology…...

1+ day, 2+ hour ago  (231+ words) May 11, 2026 07: 00 ET "| Source: 4basebio 4basebio ("4basebio" or the "Company") With the growth of gene editing and with a particular need for complex "knock-in" applications, the demand for longer, purer and safer DNA templates has increased exponentially. 4basebio's ss DNA offering enables the production…...

1+ day, 10+ hour ago  (1043+ words) In recent years, protein language models (p LMs) have revolutionized the field of protein engineering, opening new horizons that were previously unattainable through conventional scientific methods. These sophisticated artificial intelligence tools can predict, design, and manipulate protein sequences, potentially crafting…...

1+ day, 17+ hour ago  (234+ words) May 11, 2026 | Monday | News The new technology, called Spatial Perturb-Seq, overcomes a major limitation of conventional genomic methods, which typically require tissues to be broken down into individual cells. While effective for analysing isolated cells, these approaches lose critical information about…...