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Experts who study animal pheromones have traced the evolutionary origins of genes that allow mice, rats and other rodents to communicate through smell. The discovery is a clear example of how new genes can evolve through the random chance of molecular tinkering and may make identifying new pheromones easier in future studies.

Young researchers with an advanced degree can apply for the highly prestigious Eppendorf Award for Young European Investigators that acknowledges outstanding contributions to biomedical research in Europe .

Using super-resolution microscopy, scientists have discovered that mitochondrial RNA’s are packaged into tiny liquid droplets that can fuse together and break apart. The results are published in Nature Cell Biology.

Scientists at the University of Copenhagen have identified populations of cells in the body that play a role in the development of obesity, which are all located within the brain.

A new study suggests that consumption of fructose may worsen intestinal inflammation common to inflammatory bowel diseases. A western diet, including fructose, is associated with increasing rates of obesity and diabetes, and IBD may be an additional disease exacerbated by fructose intake.

In a study published in Frontiers in Plant Science, researchers from the University of Tsukuba, led by Professor Kenji Miura, have described a new tagging system for detecting and purifying proteins in plant cells.

Researchers in the group of Jeroen den Hertog, in collaboration with researchers in Leiden, have found that a compound inhibits a group of proteins called BMP receptors. This compound, called cercosporamide, was previously only known to inhibit a different group of proteins.

New findings suggest that late-onset Alzheimer’s Disease is driven by epigenetic changes — how and when certain genes are turned on and off — in the brain.

We humans need oxygen to breathe - but for many microbes it is a deadly poison. That is why microorganisms have developed ways of rendering oxygen molecules harmless, the mechanism for which researchers have now deciphered.

The scientists who re-engineered the plastic-eating enzyme PETase have now created an enzyme "cocktail" which can digest plastic up to six times faster.