Heme is an essential part of the protein hemoglobin, which colors human blood red. Heme also is crucial for cytochrome...
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Under the right circumstances, the body's T cells can detect and destroy cancer cells. However, in most cancer patients, T...
The human genome is littered with selfish genetic elements, which do not seem to benefit their hosts, but instead seek...
The fruit fly, long the organism of choice for scientists studying genetics and basic biological processes, still harbors some secrets...
A little more sexy time for symbionts could help coral reefs survive the trials of climate change. And that, in...
This story originally appeared on Atlas Obscura and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.While trekking through the Peruvian rain...
A team of researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS), led by Assistant Professor Nalini Puniamoorthy from the Department...
Bat biologists like Dan Feller get excited every year for the summer field work season, a time to get out...
Biologists at the Universities of Bath and Vienna have discovered 71 new 'imprinted' genes in the mouse genome, a finding...
In my laboratory at the University of Oriente, in Santiago de Cuba, we study the six species of Polymita, known...