22+ min ago  (725+ words) Grey hair isn't random decline " it's melanocyte stem cells wearing out, a flaw natural selection never bothered fixing. Here's the real biology behind it. Why Do Humans Have Grey Hair? A Biologist Explains What's Happening By the time most people…...

50+ min ago  (494+ words) By Chris Parr for Research Professional News Leading biomedical research institute says it will "go full in on green and gold" The Francis Crick Institute will phase out payments for hybrid open-access publishing and instead support publishing in fully open-access…...

2+ hour, 25+ min ago  (694+ words) Synthetic biology reached a landmark moment in 2010 when scientists unveiled the first bacterial cell controlled by a chemically synthesized genome. That achievement proved that a synthetic genome could "boot up" a living cell. But there was a catch. Life begins…...

1+ hour, 59+ min ago  (387+ words) For centuries, the question of what makes something "alive" has fascinated philosophers and scientists alike. Energy use, growth, reproduction, and development are hallmarks of life, but until now, these processes have been observed only in natural organisms. The idea of…...

10+ hour, 22+ min ago  (240+ words) "Programmable biology" borrows a promise from software that living things cannot keep " that whatever we write, we can also unwrite. With code that reproduces, the defences against our mistakes have to be built before the capability arrives, which is precisely…...

1+ hour, 50+ min ago  (244+ words) Image: RFBSIP, via Adobe Stock US biomedical agency aims to power precision medicine with "world's biggest" integrated health-genomics database The US National Institutes of Health has made available genomics and health data from 747, 000 people, saying it has created the largest…...

2+ hour, 11+ min ago  (661+ words) Researchers from Japan investigated how microtubules contribute to communication between granulosa cells and oocytes during ovarian follicle development. Focusing on the microtubule-stabilizing protein Camsap3, the team used knockout mouse models and advanced imaging techniques to examine the organization of transzonal projections....

7+ hour, 20+ min ago  (817+ words) A look at this blob and it's nothing special. It looks like a microscopic water droplet. But it's also arguably the closest researchers have come to building a living cell from scratch. Researchers at the University of Minnesota have developed…...

2+ hour, 31+ min ago  (144+ words) Nature Genetics (2026) Cite this article Graph-based pangenome representations are computationally and visually challenging. A linear representation of the Brassica "A" genome based on syntenic pan-blocks offers an intuitive framework for tracing the evolutionary history of important crop species. Schreiber, M. , Jayakodi,…...

5+ hour, 36+ min ago  (235+ words) Neuronal activity regulates glial physiology, but the effects of prolonged synaptic silencing in mature circuits are unclear. Using Rbp4-Cre-mediated Snap25 deletion to block neurotransmitter release in subsets of cortical layer 5 neurons and dentate gyrus granule cells, we examined glial responses across…...