Nature's imagination seems endless, and so is Man's. For as long as humans have existed, they have twisted Nature to meet their own needs. Wood has been used to keep them warm. Whale oil has been used to make light...More.
Pairing up is sometimes paramount to life. On the molecular scale, dimerization in our bodies is at the heart of many fundamental biological processes, such as the transduction of signals from the outside of a cell to the inside .. More.
Protein Spotlight: It did it its way
2014-07-31
Temperatures can get cold. And living organisms have to find ways of keeping themselves warm. Humans use clothes... More.
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Protein Spotlight: an unusual chemistry
2014-05-14
What is new to us is not necessarily new to Nature. There are things that have been around for years, even millions of years, which have remained hidden to scientists...More.
The life sciences owe a lot to green peas. And perhaps even to the bishop of St Thomas Abbey in Brno - now the Czech Republic. It was there, in the 1850s, that Gregor Johann Mendel decided to undertake studies on heredity...More.
Many of our cells are not...us... Besides the cells we produce, we carry around an awful lot of bacteria. In reality, 90 percent of the cells that make us up are bacterial, that is to say about one billion billion ...More.
Pain is part of an animal's life. It is there to tell us that something is wrong, and needs to be attended to. There is moral pain. And physical pain, the more definable of the two, which serves two purposes...More.