Xylem vessel pits are tiny openings on the cell wall of water-conducting cells—with pit geometry influencing crop yield through its effect on plant hydraulics and nitrogen transport.

He has pieced together the choreography of proteins that connect matching chromosome pairs ... matching DNA strands are exchanged and twined together over a short distance to form a structure called a ...

Scientists uncover why some proteins survive dehydration, unlocking new possibilities for medicine, food storage, and biotech ...

Harnessing the power of AI, a research team at the MRC-University of Glasgow Center for Virus Research has launched Viro3D—the most comprehensive database of human and animal virus protein structure ...

Google DeepMind’s work with AlphaFold has been nothing short of a miracle, but it is computationally expensive. With that in mind, Apple researchers set off to develop an alternative method to use AI ...

The Research Collaboratory for Structural Bioinformatics Protein Data Bank, a global scientific resource based at Rutgers ...

Huntington's disease is a rare genetic disorder and a representative neurodegenerative disease, characterized by loss of motor control, cognitive decline, and psychiatric problems. An international ...

In a groundbreaking new study, researchers led by the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth have shown that players of the ...

When you picture a cell in your body, you probably don’t expect it to move around. Yet some cells, such as immune cells, are ...

Scientists are hoping to treat diseases including cancer and Alzheimer's by influencing how cells make life-or-death ...