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Border regions are key for cilia to coordinate their motion and syncronize their movement in a unidirectional wave – like a Mexican wave in a football stadium.

People frequently exposed to racial or ethnic discrimination may be more susceptible to obesity and related health risks in part because of a stress response that changes biological processes and how we process food cues.

Using a new analysis method for satellite images, an international research team mapped for the first time annual changes in global forest biomass between 2010 and 2019.

When two, three or four apples are placed in front of us, we are able to recognize the number of apples very quickly. However, we need significantly more time if there are five or more apples and we often also guess the wrong number.

A chloroplast enzyme safeguards plants against pathological protein aggregation that causes Huntington’s and other neurodegenerative diseases. Researchers may have found a way to “copy” the mechanism for application in human cells.

Cell biologists describe a new organelle present in mammalian cells that is made of rings of DNA. This “mini-​organ” could potentially play a role in autoimmune diseases, and it could help researchers to understand how cell nuclei evolved.

Dr. Katalin Karikó and Dr. Drew Weissman share the 2023 Nobel Prize in Medicine and Physiology for their research on nucleoside base modifications, which began in the 1990s and ultimately enabled the development of life-saving COVID-19 mRNA vaccines.

A new study has raised a “warning” that the hygiene hypothesis, which suggests exposure to a diversity of microbes in early life can protect against allergies by strengthening the immune system, might not capture the whole picture of why these inappropriate immune responses are on the rise.

A new study of the genetic blueprints of more than 600 types of carrot shows that three specific genes are required to give carrots an orange color. Surprisingly, these three required genes all need to be recessive, or turned off.

By studying fossils from ancient aquatic plants, researchers are gaining a better understanding of how methane produced in Arctic lakes might affect climate change.