We have many things in common with one another, but there are also things about each of us that are unique, like our fingerprints, our genome, and our gut microbiome. We carry trillions of microbes in ...

Researchers from Queen Mary University of London's School of Biological and Behavioral Sciences, using the simple fission yeast as a model, have shown that the new TOR inhibitor rapalink-1 prolongs ...

Made up of tiny threads known as cellulose microfibrils, plant cell walls are important for regulating a plant's growth and protecting them from pests and pathogens. Previously, only one route for ...

RFdiffusion2, RFdiffusion3, and Riff-Diff each solve different structural problems in computational enzyme design ...

A new class of enzymes has been discovered in hundreds of bacterial species, including some that cause disease in humans and animals. The discovery provides new insights into how bacteria invade their ...

A core mission of glycobiology is to decipher the physiological roles of mammalian glycans. However, because glycan structure is encoded indirectly through the location and activities of glycan ...

Researchers have solved the X-ray crystal structure of the enzyme that makes obafluorin -- a broad spectrum antibiotic agent made by a fluorescent strain of soil bacteria. This new class of ...