Research Articles
Salt Stress and Cellular Secrets: How a Model Plant's Genes Guide the Way to Crop Resilience
Discover how PLD genes in Medicago truncatula respond to salt stress and what this means for developing climate-resilient crops.
How a Tiny Viral Protein Wreaks Havoc in Your Lungs
Discover how influenza's PB1-F2 protein manipulates your immune system, recruiting neutrophils while suppressing NK cells to enhance viral pathogenesis.
Cracking the Code: How Scientists Deciphered the Valley Fever Fungus Genome
Explore the breakthrough chromosomal-level genome sequencing of Coccidioides posadasii 'Silveira' strain and its implications for Valley Fever research.
Perpetual Motion of the Worst Kind: Why These Impossible Machines Captivate and Deceive
Explore the science and psychology behind perpetual motion machines - why they're impossible, the laws they violate, and the historical hoaxes that fooled thousands.
Unlocking Nature's Copper Cleanup Crew: How Black Mustard's Genes Could Save Our Soil
Discover how Brassica nigra's genetic blueprint enables it to clean up copper pollution through advanced genomics and transcriptomics analysis.
The Viral Ghosts in Our Genes: How Ancient Retroviruses Shape Health and Disease
Explore how human endogenous retroviruses (HERVs), ancient viral remnants in our DNA, influence both human health and disease through molecular functions.
The Genome's Hidden Conversation: Finding Gene Switches Without Sequence Alignment
Discover how alignment-free methods revolutionize the identification of orthologous enhancers in Drosophila genomes, overcoming limitations of traditional sequence alignment approaches.
Genome Detectives: How Evolutionary Sleuthing Unlocked the Secrets of a Rare Disease
Discover how comparative genomics revolutionized the identification of Bardet-Biedl syndrome genes through evolutionary detective work.
Decoding the Genome's Social Network: How AI Identifies Functional Gene Groups
Explore how AI and machine learning are revolutionizing functional genomics by identifying discriminant functional gene groups through integration of expression data and biological knowledge.
Unlocking Cancer's Code: How Pathway Analysis Reveals the True Impact of Mutations
Discover how pathway-based mutation analysis is transforming cancer research by revealing how mutations collectively disrupt biological systems.