SCIENCE

Flowers unfold with surprising precision, despite unruly genes 0
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- May 26, 2025
Flowers grow stems, leaves and petals in a perfect pattern again and again. A new study shows that even in this precise, patterned formation in plants, gene activity inside individual cells is far more chaotic than it appears.
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A root development gene that’s older than root development 0
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- May 26, 2025
A gene that regulates the development of roots in vascular plants is also involved in the organ development of liverworts — land plants so old they don’t even have proper roots. The discovery highlights the fundamental evolutionary dynamic of co-opting, evolving a mechanism first and adopting it for a different purpose later.
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‘Hopelessly attached’: Scientists discover new 2D material that sticks the landing 0
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- May 23, 2025
Researchers have discovered a new 2D material, confirming decade-old prediction.
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Assembly instructions for enzymes 0
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- May 23, 2025
In biology, enzymes have evolved over millions of years to drive chemical reactions. Scientists have now derived universal rules to enable the de novo design of optimal enzymes. As an example, they considered the enzymatic reaction of breaking a dimer into two monomer molecules. Considering the geometry of such an enzyme-substrate-complex, they identified three golden
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Researchers find CRISPR is capable of even more than we thought 0
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- May 16, 2025
Newly discovered weapons of bacterial self-defense take different approaches to achieving the same goal: preventing a virus from spreading through the bacterial population.
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Longer-lasting wearables set to transform health monitoring 0
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- May 16, 2025
A new article describes a longer-lasting, 3D-printed, adhesive-free wearable capable of providing a more comprehensive picture of a user’s physiological state.
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