The climate crisis threatens river microbial biodiversity, study shows

Aquatic fungi are microorganisms that play a key role in the ecological balance of rivers. They help decompose organic matter ...

Beyond frozen snapshots, protein 'breathing' comes into view with combined imaging methods

Advances in structural biology have allowed scientists to determine molecular structures with atomic-level detail, sometimes yielding static snapshots that do not reflect the dynamism of proteins.
Frontiers

Methods, Tools, and Models in Systems Biology

Systems biology is a rapidly evolving discipline that examines the complex interactions underlying biological function ...
Nature

Annotating protein functions via fusing multiple biological modalities

Understanding the function of proteins is of great significance for revealing disease pathogenesis and discovering new targets. Benefiting from the explosive growth of the protein universal, deep ...
Medical Xpress

Unveiling the 'functionome': Online resource describes functions of more than 20,000 human genes

A new resource from the Gene Ontology Consortium, a comprehensive encyclopedia of the known functions of all protein-coding human genes, has been completed and released on a new website. For the first ...
Nature

Mapping neutron biological effectiveness for DNA damage induction as a function of incident energy and depth in a human sized phantom

We present new developments for an ab-initio model of the neutron relative biological effectiveness (RBE) in inducing specific classes of DNA damage. RBE is evaluated as a function of the incident ...
Science Daily

Comprehensive resource describes functions of more than 20,000 human genes

A comprehensive encyclopedia of the known functions of all protein-coding human genes has just been completed and released. Researchers used large-scale evolutionary modeling to integrate data on ...