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Unique Odors Help Naked Mole Rat Queens Stop Power Struggles

Imagine the following scenario: A head of state enters a room and emits a scent that prevents potential rivals from even considering challenging them.

16 Jul 2026

Intermicrobial Antagonism Controls Essential Bacteria Populations in Human Guts

Mougous, John F. Enders Professor of Microbial Pathogenesis at Yale School of Medicine (YSM), studies bacterial warfare, or how different microbes defend their ecological niches against other species.

14 Jul 2026

Scientists Solve Ancient Prebiotic Paradox With Novel RNA Repair Mechanism

In most modern cells, DNA stores the genetic blueprint, and relies on proteins to replicate, repair and build from those blueprints. At the same time, proteins require instructions from DNA to be made in the first place.

13 Jul 2026

Research Maps Structural Interactions Between Mitochondria and Lipid Droplets

An international study by scientists at the Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares Carlos III (CNIC) and the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) has identified a fundamental mechanism that regulates how the body uses stored fat to produce energy.

10 Jul 2026

How Touch Science Shapes Better Cosmetic Products

This pedagogical review explains how skin physiology, mechanoreceptors, trained panels, and standardized methods shape tactile evaluation in cosmetics. It also assesses instrumental tools, artificial intelligence, virtual reality, and electronic sensors as promising complements to human sensory testing.

9 Jul 2026

Researchers Develop Tool to Decode Complex DNA Regulation

Researchers from the Cancer Science Institute of Singapore (CSI Singapore) at NUS have developed a new method that allows scientists to better understand how DNA is organized and regulated inside our cells.

7 Jul 2026

Researchers Map Marine Bacterial Enzyme to Tweak Therapeutic Red Pigments

Many important medicines and agricultural compounds have origins in natural products made by microorganisms.

7 Jul 2026

Study Reveals How Brick Kiln Arsenic Shifts Soil Metabolic Potential

Brick kilns have long supported construction and economic development, but their legacy can remain in the soil long after production stops.

7 Jul 2026

Using DNA to Save Nature: Europe's Next Biodiversity Frontier

A landmark alliance of DNA experts across Europe signals the start of an unprecedented effort to build a continent-wide system that applies genomics for protecting European biodiversity.

30 Jun 2026

New Evolutionary Framework Views Psychedelic Compounds as Crucial Ecological Tools

Natural hallucinogens, such as psilocybin, mescaline, N,N-dimethyltryptamine (DMT), and related compounds, have generally received attention for their effects on human perception, emotion, and cognition.

25 Jun 2026

Automated Cell-Free Systems Boost Protein Production Performance Five-Fold

A research team led by Professor Joongoo Lee in the Department of Chemical Engineering at POSTECH (Pohang University of Science and Technology) has developed an automated, modular method for assembling reconstituted cell-free systems, which are test-tube systems that can produce proteins outside living cells.

25 Jun 2026

Aberdeen Researcher Awarded Prestigious $1.2 M International Grant to Uncover How New Traits Evolve

An Aberdeen-based researcher has been awarded a highly prestigious international research grant to investigate one of biology’s most enduring mysteries: how completely new traits evolve in animals.

23 Jun 2026

Targeting Iron Metabolism Offers a New Strategy to Kill Cancer Cells

Researchers from the University of Michigan Health Rogel Cancer Center have discovered a key metabolic pathway that allows colorectal cancer cells to accumulate large quantities of iron. Blocking that pathway reduced iron levels and caused the cancer cells to die.

22 Jun 2026

Innovative Method Decodes Short Peptides With Zero Errors

Our food and our bodies are full of tiny protein fragments called peptides.

17 Jun 2026

Evolutionary Biology Unlocks Secret Toxins Hidden Inside Poison Dart Frogs

There is a group of colorful amphibians that are known for storing defensive alkaloids in glands on their skin.

16 Jun 2026

Streamlining Complex Drug Development by Directly Editing Core Molecular Frameworks

For more than a hundred years, chemists have been building complex molecules step by step – bond by bond, atom by atom.

16 Jun 2026

Researchers Identify a Dedicated Gut-Brain Signaling Pathway That Helps Drive Hunger

Researchers at the Monell Chemical Senses Center found that common dietary sugars fructose and glucose, despite having the same amount of calories, communicate with the brain through different gut-brain pathways, a difference that may help shape our food and beverage preferences.

12 Jun 2026