3+ week, 1+ day ago   (534+ words) A cell that has become cancerous, aged or otherwise abnormal may appear to have crossed a biological point of no return. Once its internal molecular circuitry has stabilized in a new state, removing the original trigger often does not restore…...

7+ hour, 1+ min ago   (640+ words) The University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture has unveiled an ambitious new fellowship designed to reshape how the next generation of animal science professionals is trained. Known as F.U.S.E....

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (510+ words) Engineered living cells are becoming miniature biological factories, capable of producing medicines, sustainable chemicals and other valuable products. They can also be designed to sense disease-related signals or respond to changing conditions inside the human body. Yet unlike machines built…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (630+ words) Scientists at the University of Arkansas have developed a more stable and biologically active form of human fibroblast growth factor 1, a signaling protein with important roles in cell growth, tissue repair and metabolism....

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (839+ words) Aging does not unfold at the same pace everywhere in the body, and one of the most ambitious attempts yet to quantify that asymmetry suggests that the deterioration of our tissues follows tissue-specific trajectories that are more coordinated than scientists…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (656+ words) Variant effect prediction has entered a new phase, but one of biology’s largest blind spots remains stubbornly difficult to resolve. Computational tools have become increasingly effective at estimating the consequences of missense variants in folded protein domains, where amino-acid positions…...

15+ min ago   (618+ words) Every day, computational biologists release new methods for analyzing genomes, single cells, microbiomes and molecular signatures, and every day researchers struggle with the same question: which method actually works best for their data? The answer usually depends on benchmarks—structured…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (625+ words) Hematopoietic stem cells, the rare self-renewing cells that continually replenish blood and immune populations, do not simply “wear out” with age. They undergo a complex biological transformation that reshapes how they read DNA, respond to stress, interact with their surroundings…...