How cells change their minds and save their work in progress

All cells need to sense and respond to their environment, to know when to activate genes, build proteins, and carry out their ...

Scientists Have Discovered an Organism That Breaks Biology’s Golden Rule

An archaeon reads the same codon in two different ways, overturning a doctrine that has stood for 60 years. Living organisms ...
eLife

Evolutionary remodeling of non-canonical ORF translation in mammals

This study presents a large, systematically curated catalog of non-canonical open reading frames (ncORFs) in human and mouse by reanalyzing nearly 400 Ribo-seq datasets using a standardized pipeline; ...
Nature

The ‘silent’ brain cells that shape our behaviour, memory and health

By contrast, glial cells seemed to be electrically silent and were dismissed as dull by most researchers. Some glia, called ...
eLife

Bivalent mRNA booster encoding virus-like particles elicits potent polyclass RBD antibodies in pre-vaccinated mice

This report provides useful evidence that EABR mRNA is at least as effective as standard S mRNA vaccines for the SARS-CoV-2 booster vaccine. Although the methodology and the experimental approaches ...
Nature

Chemical biology articles from across Nature Portfolio

Chemical biology is the study of the chemicals and chemical reactions involved in biological processes, incorporating the disciplines of bioorganic chemistry, biochemistry, cell biology and ...