The moves were controversial because they involved long-distance job transfers that threatened to uproot many scientists and ...

Macrophages play a key role in cardiac injury and repair after myocardial infarction (MI). Salt-inducible kinase 2 (SIK2), a ...

Absence of branched N-glycans on γδ T cells acts as a peripheral signal that amplifies a type 3/IL-17A response in ...

While working in Italy, Lidge became fascinated with the inscriptions on Etruscan artifacts. That eventually led him to ...

Genome analysis shows how decades of lab cultivation turned C. botulinum, the canned-food killer, into a potent tool for ...

This week, at the 17th Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP17), delegates from 195 countries and the European Union are gathering in Yerevan, Armenia ...

The catalytic and other sophisticated functions of biomolecules arise from the placement of many atoms in three-dimensional ...

Chitosan, a major fungal cell wall component, activates plant immunity, yet the underlying perception mechanism remains unknown. In this study, we identified OsFID1, an apoplast-localized DUF26 domain ...

Plants detect microbes through pattern recognition receptors that perceive conserved microbial surface motifs known as microbe-associated molecular patterns (MAMPs). Lysin motif (LysM) receptors ...

Stomatopod crustaceans (mantis shrimps) have extraordinary eyes with unmatched visual rhodopsin diversity, but their ...

China is increasingly incorporating pollination into agricultural management. Recent national guidance on pesticide use ...

When calving cliffs at the margins of Earth’s ice sheets exceed a critical height, runaway retreat may be initiated in a process called the marine ice cliff instability. However, sufficiently tall ice ...