Studying the growth of bacteria without cell walls in an artificial environment can shed new light on the proliferation of primitive life-forms billions of years ago.

The combination of histological and microscopic techniques, along with the initial application of finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) modeling to a fossil feather, has resulted in the first recovery ...

Time-resolved fluorescence resonance energy transfer reveals conformational energetics of a bacterial cyclic nucleotide-gated ion channel.

Genetic studies reveal that polyunsaturated lipids do more than simply increase the fluidity of the cell membrane.

This study examines a valuable question regarding the developmental trajectory of neural mechanisms supporting facial expression processing. Leveraging a rare intracranial EEG (iEEG) dataset including ...

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Robust control of DNA replication is fundamental to bacterial proliferation. In Escherichia coli, replication initiation is thought to be regulated by oscillations in Dn ...

This important study provides evidence for dynamic coupling between translation initiation and elongation that can help maintain low ribosome density and translational homeostasis. The authors combine ...

LMO2 is an intrinsically disordered transcription factor activated in T cell leukaemia that is difficult to target. It forms part of a multiprotein complex that has bipartite DNA binding through ...

This is a valuable computational study of odor responses in the early olfactory system of insects and vertebrates. The study addresses the question of how information about odor concentration is ...

A region of the brain called the paraventricular thalamus mediates the impact of stress on unlearned fear responses, but is not involved in learned fear behavior.