Having a simplified synthetic equivalent of two key features of life is fascinating, but many more steps need to be integrated to form an autonomously growing and dividing synthetic cell. 'The next ...

It is one of the most fundamental questions in science: how can lifeless molecules come together to form a living cell? Bert ...

Single-nucleotide variants (SNVs) occur throughout the genome and constitute most of ... An element derived from the population structure described may have pharmacogenetic implications. The European ...

One reason cancer is so difficult to eradicate is its metabolic flexibility, she said. Her findings suggest that the salvage pathway could be an access route for cancer cells to get their nucleotide ...

That meant using tRNA that wasn't already assigned to an amino acid. Their solution: a four-nucleotide codon. The team knew ...

These code components are available as part of Creator-Kit and can be downloaded from latest release. There are two types of components: User interface components - controls that have a user interface ...

Obesity poses a significant risk of developing type II diabetes and other diseases. Hedgehog (Hh) signaling has been shown to inhibit adipose tissue development, but its effect on diet-induced obesity ...

ABC exporters pump substrates across the membrane by coupling ATP-driven movements of nucleotide binding domains (NBDs) to the transmembrane domains (TMDs), which switch between inward- and ...