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Structural Biology
Structural biology is a branch of molecular biology, biochemistry, and biophysics concerned with the molecular structure of biological macromolecules, how they acquire the structures they have, and how alterations in their structures affect their function.
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SEP 30, 2025Microbiology
Legionella bacteria can contaminate many water sources, even windshield wiper fluid, and if inhaled as aerosols in conta ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJUL 15, 2025Cell & Molecular Biology
Proteins are essential to biology, and they have to assume the correct three-dimensional structure in order to work prop ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJUL 08, 2025Cell & Molecular Biology
Our bodies have to sense our environment, and receptors are one part of the sensory experience of the body. Receptors, s ...Written By: Carmen LeitchMAY 23, 2025Microbiology
For years, clinicians and scientists have known that many frontline antibiotics are becoming less reliable. Bacteria con ...Written By: Carmen LeitchAPR 08, 2025Microbiology
There are many different kinds of Escherichia coli bacteria. Some of them ..Written By: Carmen LeitchMAR 26, 2025Cell & Molecular Biology
Certain cells have an unusual shape that is similar to an oak leaf or puzzle piece, and researchers have found that the ...Written By: Carmen LeitchMAR 21, 2025Cell & Molecular Biology
Ultraviolet (UV) radiation is known to cause DNA damage, and while that damage may accumulate and eventually lead to dis ...Written By: Carmen LeitchMAR 04, 2025Clinical & Molecular DX
Whenever the immune system fights a pathogen, it has a memory of that invader, or possibly, a vaccine that mimics an inf ...Written By: Carmen LeitchFEB 17, 2025Cell & Molecular Biology
The microbes in the human gastrointestinal tract can have a significant influence on human health and disease, and this ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJAN 27, 2025Cell & Molecular Biology
Although scientists can learn a lot from cell culture and animal models, they cannot truly substitute for all parts of t ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJAN 13, 2025Genetics & Genomics
Some missense mutations are known to cause disease. But what about the thousands of other missense mutations that have u ...Written By: Carmen LeitchDEC 25, 2024Genetics & Genomics
It's estimated that anywhere from 3 to 7% of school-age children may have dyslexia, a neruodevelopmental issue that affe ...Written By: Carmen LeitchDEC 06, 2024Genetics & Genomics
The human genome is a molecule in action; the strands separate when they are being copied for cell division; DNA has to ...Written By: Carmen LeitchNOV 20, 2024Cell & Molecular Biology
Drosophila melanogaster, or fruit flies, are convenient research tools, and they have many genes in common with humans.Written By: Carmen LeitchNOV 06, 2024Cell & Molecular Biology
After a decade of work, scientists have completed a molecular model of the human spliceosome, an incredibly complex cell ...Written By: Carmen LeitchOCT 23, 2024Microbiology
Bacteria that are resistant to antibiotics are a growing health problem. These problematic pathogens are already thought ...Written By: Carmen LeitchOCT 08, 2024Genetics & Genomics
Scientists have now discovered why a genetic mutation in a gene called TET2 is often implicated in disorders including d ...Written By: Carmen LeitchOCT 03, 2024Genetics & Genomics
Compared to the general population, individuals with Down's syndrome have a higher risk of developing leukemia.Written By: Carmen LeitchOCT 02, 2024Clinical & Molecular DX
The human genome contains many common features and characteristics beyond just being made of four bases. There are prote ...Written By: Carmen LeitchAUG 27, 2024Genetics & Genomics
This study has added to evidence that the cerebellum has important roles that are underappreciated.Written By: Carmen LeitchJUL 19, 2024Earth & The Environment
Scientists have managed to reconstruct the 3D structure of a woolly mammoth genome that is 52,000 years old, in a first ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJUN 28, 2024Genetics & Genomics
In the past decade or so, biomedical technology has been revolutionized by a green editing technique known as CRISPR, wh ...Written By: Carmen LeitchMAY 30, 2024Genetics & Genomics
It's long been assumed that as cells divide in the human body, the genome is faithfully replicated in the resulting daug ...Written By: Carmen LeitchMAY 23, 2024Microbiology
When human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) emerged and was identified as the cause of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (A ...Written By: Carmen Leitch
SEP 30, 2025
Microbiology
Legionella bacteria can contaminate many water sources, even windshield wiper fluid, and if inhaled as aerosols in conta
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUL 15, 2025
Cell & Molecular Biology
Proteins are essential to biology, and they have to assume the correct three-dimensional structure in order to work prop
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUL 08, 2025
Cell & Molecular Biology
Our bodies have to sense our environment, and receptors are one part of the sensory experience of the body. Receptors, s
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAY 23, 2025
Microbiology
For years, clinicians and scientists have known that many frontline antibiotics are becoming less reliable. Bacteria con
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
APR 08, 2025
Microbiology
There are many different kinds of Escherichia coli bacteria. Some of them ..
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAR 26, 2025
Cell & Molecular Biology
Certain cells have an unusual shape that is similar to an oak leaf or puzzle piece, and researchers have found that the
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAR 21, 2025
Cell & Molecular Biology
Ultraviolet (UV) radiation is known to cause DNA damage, and while that damage may accumulate and eventually lead to dis
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAR 04, 2025
Clinical & Molecular DX
Whenever the immune system fights a pathogen, it has a memory of that invader, or possibly, a vaccine that mimics an inf
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
FEB 17, 2025
Cell & Molecular Biology
The microbes in the human gastrointestinal tract can have a significant influence on human health and disease, and this
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JAN 27, 2025
Cell & Molecular Biology
Although scientists can learn a lot from cell culture and animal models, they cannot truly substitute for all parts of t
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JAN 13, 2025
Genetics & Genomics
Some missense mutations are known to cause disease. But what about the thousands of other missense mutations that have u
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
DEC 25, 2024
Genetics & Genomics
It's estimated that anywhere from 3 to 7% of school-age children may have dyslexia, a neruodevelopmental issue that affe
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
DEC 06, 2024
Genetics & Genomics
The human genome is a molecule in action; the strands separate when they are being copied for cell division; DNA has to
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
NOV 20, 2024
Cell & Molecular Biology
Drosophila melanogaster, or fruit flies, are convenient research tools, and they have many genes in common with humans.
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
NOV 06, 2024
Cell & Molecular Biology
After a decade of work, scientists have completed a molecular model of the human spliceosome, an incredibly complex cell
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
OCT 23, 2024
Microbiology
Bacteria that are resistant to antibiotics are a growing health problem. These problematic pathogens are already thought
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
OCT 08, 2024
Genetics & Genomics
Scientists have now discovered why a genetic mutation in a gene called TET2 is often implicated in disorders including d
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
OCT 03, 2024
Genetics & Genomics
Compared to the general population, individuals with Down's syndrome have a higher risk of developing leukemia.
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
OCT 02, 2024
Clinical & Molecular DX
The human genome contains many common features and characteristics beyond just being made of four bases. There are prote
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
AUG 27, 2024
Genetics & Genomics
This study has added to evidence that the cerebellum has important roles that are underappreciated.
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUL 19, 2024
Earth & The Environment
Scientists have managed to reconstruct the 3D structure of a woolly mammoth genome that is 52,000 years old, in a first
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUN 28, 2024
Genetics & Genomics
In the past decade or so, biomedical technology has been revolutionized by a green editing technique known as CRISPR, wh
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAY 30, 2024
Genetics & Genomics
It's long been assumed that as cells divide in the human body, the genome is faithfully replicated in the resulting daug
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAY 23, 2024
Microbiology
When human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) emerged and was identified as the cause of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (A
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch