Caffeine reveals role of epigenetics in anti-fungal resistance
Image credit: Kruthika Sundaram Annually, an estimated 1 billion people suffer from critical fungal infections, with 1.6 million deaths. The...
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Secrets of the water bear
Hypsibius dujardini, a type of tardigrade, imaged with scanning electron microscopy. Image credit: Willow Gabriel, Goldstein Lab via Wikimedia, CC...
Blood iron emerges as a potential key to anti-ageing
Image credit: Jill Wellington, Pixabay Growing old may be an inevitable part of our lives, but can we overcome the...
The ABCs of Life on Earth
Image credit: Pixabay Researchers at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, in collaboration with colleagues from the University of Edinburgh,...
Once Upon a DNA
Omar Shabana explores the ins and outs of the information in our DNA, and how we use it. Image credit:...
The Perils and Possibilities of CRISPR Whispering
Image credit: Elsie Greenwood In November 2018 a controversial public announcement was published on YouTube by He Jiankui, a biophysics...
Bacteria may be travelling through the air to share DNA
A research group has discovered that bacteria in remote, isolated regions share some stretches of DNA and are suggesting that...
