1+ day, 17+ hour ago   (55+ words) Plant-based foods are booming, but one humble challenge keeps tripping up the industry: bubbles. The foams that give bread, cakes, plant-based whipped toppings, and cappuccino-style drinks their lightness are thermodynamically unstable dispersions of gas in liquid, and without animal-derived proteins…...

4+ day, 23+ hour ago   (383+ words) A new study has uncovered an unexpected feature of human DNA linked to gene activity and the physical organization of DNA. The findings, published in Cell, could change how scientists think about DNA organization, transcription, and genome function. DNA and…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (769+ words) Every day, laboratories and clinics around the world generate genetic sequences in which a single letter of the DNA code has been swapped for another, and many of these changes alter the amino acid composition of the proteins those genes…...

2+ week, 5+ 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…...