1+ hour, 21+ min ago   (73+ words) A single microRNA molecule may help determine whether the parasitic blood fluke Schistosoma japonicum thrives inside its host or succumbs to programmed cell death, according to a new study published in Acta Parasitologica. Researchers led by Yuanzhao Sun and Haoran…...

3+ hour, 18+ min ago   (83+ words) When the first fish lineage crawled onto land some 375 million years ago, its fins had to be remodeled into limbs capable of bearing weight. Evolutionary biologists have long focused on the genes that pattern the skeleton—Hox clusters, Sonic hedgehog,…...

8+ hour, 38+ min ago   (620+ words) Every heartbeat, every twitch of a fin, and every dividing cell in a fish embryo depends on a molecular machine so ancient that its origins trace back billions of years. Oxidative phosphorylation, or OXPHOS, is the process by which cells…...

10+ hour, 15+ min ago   (710+ words) Within hours of drawing their first breath, newborn babies may already display one of the most quietly provocative differences in human psychology....

1+ day, 2+ hour ago   (918+ words) The assembly of a genomic catalog devoted specifically to bacterial and archaeal symbionts represents a meaningful shift in how large-scale microbiome resources are organized....

1+ day, 5+ hour ago   (85+ words) One of the most basic assumptions in neuroscience data analysis is quietly being overturned. A new study published in the journal Neuroinformatics shows that two groups of neurons can appear to divide their labor in the brain for no reason…...