. Scientific Frontline
Monday, November 6, 2023

Potential inheritable effects and ethical considerations of epigenome editing

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Illustration Credit: Courtesy of Institute for the Advanced Study of Human Biology Epigenome editing is an emerging technology used to regul...
Sunday, November 5, 2023

Urbanization threatens ecological health of South China’s Greater Bay Area

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Photo Credit: Professor Joe Lee Shing-yip Rapid urbanization in South China’s Greater Bay Area poses a significant threat to the ecological ...

New study findings call into question the superiority of stem cell therapy for treating knee pain

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Image Credit: rawpixel Characterized by extensive damage to joints and debilitating pain, osteoarthritis (OA) impacts millions of people wor...
Thursday, November 2, 2023

Molecular blueprint of circuits governing locomotor speed

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Zebra fish Photo Credit: Lars Bräutigam Researchers at Karolinska Institutet, Sweden have uncovered the molecular logic underpinning the ass...

One Punch Isn’t Enough to Overcome a Common Cancer Mutation

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Acute myeloid leukemia as seen under a microscope. Image Credit: Animalculist ( CC BY-SA 4.0 ) Cancer cells are often a mess of mutations. A...

Study links changes in global water cycle to higher temperatures

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Over last 2,000 years, rising and falling temperatures have altered the way water moves around the planet Photo Credit: Giulia Veneziano It’...

Jurassic worlds might be easier to spot than modern Earth

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Modeling by Cornell astronomers finds that telescopes could more easily detect an exoplanet with higher levels of atmospheric oxygen than mo...

FSU researchers capture high-resolution images of magnesium ions interacting with CRISPR gene-editing enzyme

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Hong Li, professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and director of the Institute of Molecular Biophysics. Photo Credit: Devi...

Brain health in over 50s deteriorated more rapidly during the pandemic

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Photo Credit:  Gabriel Porras Brain health in over 50s deteriorated more rapidly during the pandemic, even if they didn’t have COVID-19, acc...

Atherosclerosis: RNA fragment creates prospect for new therapies

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Image Credit: © Weber Lab, IPEK Atherosclerosis is considered a frequent cause of cardiovascular diseases and strokes. Despite medical progr...

New antibodies neutralize resistant bacteria

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Cryo-electron microscopic reconstruction of the binding of a human anti-PcrV Fab antibody (yellow) to a PcrV pentamer (blue) of the type III...

Stronger, stretchier, self-healing plastic

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The complex shape of an origami crane that was restored using heat after being flattened. Image Credit: ©2023, Shota Ando An innovative plas...

Preventing the Exhaustion of T Cells

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Healthy (red) and exhausted (green) T cells in the spleen of chronically infected mouse. Image Credit: Ana Maria Mansilla / Institut für Sys...
Wednesday, November 1, 2023

The Unraveling of a Protist Genome Could Unlock the Mystery of Marine Viruses

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Light-microscopy image of clusters of Aurantiochytrium limacinum cells. The marine protist is prevalent in the world’s oceans. Image Credits...

Study reveals location of starfish’s head

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Postdoctoral scholar Laurent Formery (left) and biology Professor Christopher Lowe with starfish on the shore of Stanford’s Hopkins Marine S...