Around the world, on separate continents that had no contact with each other, multiple groups of ancient humans invented ...

Researchers suggest that many metamorphic proteins have an 'underlying temperature dependence.' If confirmed, this would mean that temperature -- and cold temperature in particular -- plays a ...

Researchers at Duke University and North Carolina State University have discovered a handful of new CRISPR-Cas systems that ...

WASHINGTON, DC – The Editorial Board of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) has selected six papers published by PNAS in 2024 to receive the Cozzarelli Prize, an award that ...

Metamorphic proteins can be thought of as the "shapeshifters" of human, animal and bacterial cells. Their ability to ...

A new theory suggests temperature controls how metamorphic proteins shapeshift, with colder temperatures promoting ...

In a new paper, two researchers suggest that many metamorphic proteins have an “underlying temperature dependence.” If ...

UB researchers have uncovered how heat causes a critical receptor protein within cells to unfold and relay pain.

New UChicago research finds that children who saw an ‘equal’ gesture were more likely to express egalitarian beliefs ...

Defects in two-dimensional materials (such as an atom-thick sheet of graphene) can dramatically alter the way that the ...

People could still make calls, text or use a desktop computer. The results, published in the scientific journal PNAS Nexus, found that 91% of the participants reported improvement in at least one ...

Edited by Joseph Kieber, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC; received November 27, 2024; accepted January 7, 2025 ...