April 9, 2021
When the Beads Line Up
Our body’s proteins are largely the same as those of apes and monkeys, and the similarities extend even to the less human-like creatures: We share roughly 90 percent of our...
November 8, 2020
Mystery Molecule in Bacteria Is Revealed to Be a Guard
Peculiar hybrid structures called retrons that are half RNA, half single-strand DNA are found in many species of bacteria. Since their discovery around 35 years ago, researchers have learned how...
September 17, 2020
Bacteria Could Provide us with the Next Antivirals
By tracking the evolution of what may be our oldest means of fighting off viral infection, a group at the Weizmann Institute of Science has uncovered a gold mine of...