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The discovery of insulin has saved the lives of millions of people with diabetes worldwide, but little is known about the first step of insulin synthesis. Researchers at the University of Michigan have uncovered part of this mystery.…

Meanwhile, Hanna’s team in Israel was growing mouse embryo models in a similar way, as they described in a paper in Cell that was published shortly before the paper from Zernicka-Goetz’s group. Hanna’s models too were made solely from…

The new paper is the result of herculean computational analyses, involving researchers in Germany, Spain, and the United Kingdom, to better understand the role ancient retroviruses play in early embryonic development—how they harm, and how…

Transfer RNAs (tRNAs) are among the most common types of RNA in a cell and are indispensable for protein production in all known organisms. They have an important "translation" function: They determine how the sequence of nucleic acids, in…

Next, they got patients from a hair transplant clinic to donate follicles, then grafted those healthy hairs onto mice. Follicles normally undergo a sort of shock after a transplant, going dormant for a couple months. Plikus suspected that…

Baldur's Gate 3 has jumped back into gaming's collective conscious in a shocking display, as a TikTok livestream from the developers of the upcoming RPG was recently cut off due to a video depicting a lovemaking scene between two humanoid…

Graphical abstract. Credit: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Is it possible to build machine-learning models without machine-learning…

They then administered a single low dose of klotho under each monkey’s skin, raising levels of the protein to those normally present in the animals at birth. Four hours later, researchers had them complete the food-finding task in batches…

The 2nd edition of the eurekAWARDS is launched! Luxembourg, Belgium, Monaco, and Paris, France – 3 July 2023: eureKARE, a pioneering company focused on financing and building next generation synthetic-biology based biotechnology…

A new study led by researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer, University of California, Irvine and Baylor College of Medicine has created the world's largest and most comprehensive map of normal breast tissue, providing an…