Venom has a language of its own. The recurring message is not a nice one, and usually expresses one thing: back off. Certain animals use venom - a cocktail of molecules - to ward off predators or, at the very least, to divert .... More.
Infectious agents sometimes manage to shun the immune system by distracting it. P.sojae has achieved just this by producing a harmless protein that looks very similar to its infectious counterpart and tricks the immune system.... More.
Survival depends on cues, mobility and a medium to evolve in. Cues - such as scents, sounds or colours for example - will attract organisms towards food, mating grounds and an environment in which they feel protected... More.
New release with variant frequency data, new protein digestion tool and more
Protein spotlight: The scent of guile
2019-08-04
All kinds of strategies are used by living beings for their survival. Humans lay down traps to catch prey, chameleons melt into their environment to hide from predators and foxes cross water to bewilder those hunting them. ... More.
Diversity is one of Nature's fortes. See how she has spread life and let it flow into Earth's every nook and cranny: oceans and seas, rivers and lakes, woodland, forests and jungles, mountains, valleys, deserts, marshland ... More.
New neXtProt SPARQL user guide
2019-06-07
A Critical Guide to the neXtProt knowledgebase: querying using SPARQL. Now available from F1000Research
Life strives on reproduction. Over time, it has found very imaginative ways to proliferate in multitudinous forms - from protozoa wriggling in the bottom of pools to big cats racing across the African plains and birds ... More.
Would Nature not tend instinctively towards symmetry? In our eyes, symmetry often spells equilibrium, a source of beauty. Consider the work of architects, or engineers. Houses, skyscrapers, bridges and dams are usually symmetr.... More.
New resource: mOTUs
2019-04-11
mOTUs is a tool which profiles microbial abundance, activity and population genomic using marker gene-based operational taxonomic units (mOTUs) at species-level resolution