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Tau proteins can convert from an inert shape to a misfolded shape that seeds the growth of fibers that contribute to the pathology of Alzheimer's disease.

Optogenetic approaches are leading to a better understanding of the forces that determine the plane of cell division.

New sequence data from choanoflagellates improves our understanding of the genetic changes that occurred along the branch of the evolutionary tree that gave rise to animals.

The emergence of subpopulations that perform distinct metabolic roles has been observed in populations of genetically identical bacteria.

Drugs called bisphosphonates are used to treat a range of bone diseases, but how do they reach the enzymes that are their target?

The neurons that connect the brain and ventral nerve cord in fruit flies have been mapped in unprecedented detail.

Evidence is accumulating that unrelated species have independently evolved the same way of importing proteins in their mitochondria.

An artificially evolved ribozyme can catalyse the synthesis of RNA by using trinucleotide triphosphates as building blocks.

A simple label-free method uses the electrical properties of cells to detect how ligands bind to membrane proteins.

In zebrafish larvae, it is the cell type that determines how the cell responds to a chemokine signal.