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28
Aug
2026
Self-blinking ‘fairy lights’ allow DNA to be imaged at double helix width resolution
The advance is described today in the journal Molecular Cell and could help diagnose and treat cancer
27
Aug
2026
The glue that holds the body together also helps swallow dead cells
The discovery could lead to new clues for understanding chronic inflammatory conditions.
19
Aug
2026
The restless fish missing tiny genetic fragments in the brain
How a stolen laptop and trips across Europe helped a young scientist trace restlessness in zebrafish back to the tiniest fragments of genetic code in the vertebrate brain. This article is part of...
12
Aug
2026
First 3D map of ovary throughout reproductive lifespan reveals it counts its own eggs
A whole mouse ovary, made transparent and imaged in three dimensions. Each bright sphere is one of the roughly 5,000 egg cells a mouse is born with and will ever have. Larger ones are already...
06
Aug
2026
Study maps how a plant's drought sensor can be fine-tuned
Researchers create 3,500 versions of a protein which tells plants they are thirsty; could lead to new strategies to engineer drought-resistant crops
03
Aug
2026
Life speaks one universal language to activate genes. It speaks many more to silence them
The result of a 2-billion-year conflict between genomes and the parasitic elements are described in Nature Genetics
15
Jul
2026
ENCODE maps more than 92 million DNA elements that control human genes
A study in Nature produced the most complete atlas to date of the DNA regions that switch human genes on and off
11
Jun
2026
Collagen, the human body’s most abundant protein, is liquid-like inside cells
New study overturns a 60-year-old assumption about the body's primary structural building block
28
May
2026
Fat molecule inside cell nucleus shifts with cell division
A new layer of control over how cells divide could help understand cancer
12
May
2026
A roadmap for safer, explainable protein-design AI
CRG researchers call for protein-design systems to be more transparent, trustworthy and secure
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The advance is described today in the journal Molecular Cell and could help diagnose and treat cancer
The discovery could lead to new clues for understanding chronic inflammatory conditions.
How a stolen laptop and trips across Europe helped a young scientist trace restlessness in zebrafish back to the tiniest fragments of genetic code in the vertebrate brain. This article is part of...
A whole mouse ovary, made transparent and imaged in three dimensions. Each bright sphere is one of the roughly 5,000 egg cells a mouse is born with and will ever have. Larger ones are already...
Researchers create 3,500 versions of a protein which tells plants they are thirsty; could lead to new strategies to engineer drought-resistant crops
The result of a 2-billion-year conflict between genomes and the parasitic elements are described in Nature Genetics
A study in Nature produced the most complete atlas to date of the DNA regions that switch human genes on and off
New study overturns a 60-year-old assumption about the body's primary structural building block
A new layer of control over how cells divide could help understand cancer
CRG researchers call for protein-design systems to be more transparent, trustworthy and secure