Parasitic plants use stolen genes to make them better parasites

Some parasitic plants steal genetic material from their host plants and use the stolen genes to…

The Milky Way devoured another galaxy and we've spotted the remains

We’ve identified the original stars that were in the Milky Way before it devoured another smaller…

Miniaturized version of ribosome found in microsporidia

A research team lead by MIMS/SciLifeLab research group leader Jonas Barandun, Umeå University, Sweden, uses cryo-electron…

Machine learning approach significantly expands inovirus diversity

To answer the question, “Where’s Waldo?” readers need to look for a number of distinguishing features.…

Tracking Smoke From Fires to Improve Air Quality Forecasting

NASA and NOAA kicked off a months-long airborne investigation into the life cycles of smoke from…

Heart disease biomarker linked to paleo diet

People who follow the paleo diet have twice the amount of a key blood biomarker linked…

Programmable structural dynamics successful in self-organizing fiber structures

Cells assemble dynamically: their components are continuously exchanging and being replaced. This enables the structures to…

Are American nurses prepared for a catastrophe? New study says perhaps not

On average, American colleges and universities with nursing programs offer about one hour of instruction in…

Targeting old bottleneck reveals new anticancer drug strategy

The enzyme ribonucleotide reductase is a bottleneck for cancer cell growth. Scientists have identified a way…

More colorectal cancer cases are being diagnosed in younger patients

Average age at diagnosis in the United States has decreased over the past decade. …