Imagine the lifetime of a yeast cell, floating across the kitchen in a spore that eventually lands on a bowl of grapes. Life is sweet: food for days, not less than until someone notices the rotting fruit and throws them out. But then the sun shines through a window, the section of the counter where […]
Scientists have known for a long time that pregnancy requires a mother’s body to regulate in order that her immune system doesn’t attack the growing fetus as if it were a hostile foreign invader. Yet despite learning an incredible deal more in regards to the immunology of pregnancy in recent times, a brand new study […]
The non-specific lethal (NSL) complex is a chromatin-associated factor that has been shown to manage the expression of 1000’s of genes in each fruit flies and mammals. Abrogation of the NSL genes results in the death of the organism, and this phenotype gives rise to this complex’s curious name. Max Planck researchers have now identified […]
Are you able to recognize someone you have not seen in years, but forget what you had for breakfast yesterday? Our brains continually rearrange their circuitry to recollect familiar faces or learn recent skills, however the molecular basis of this process is not well understood. Today, scientists report that sulfate groups on complex sugar molecules […]