The likelihood of hitting a deer is highest during morning and evening twilight. Patrick Pleul/Picture alliance via Getty ImagesDaylight saving time ends in the U.S. and Canada on Nov. 5, 2023, and most of us will set our clocks back an hour. There is a long-running debate about the benefit of the time change, given how it disrupts humans’ circadian rhythms, causing short-term stress and fatigue. Another risk accompanying the time change is on the roads: As more people drive at dusk during an ac
Blocking viruses from replicating their RNA is one way antivirals work. CROCOTHERY/iStock via Getty Images PlusAntiviral drugs are generally considered to be a 20th century invention. But recent research has uncovered an unexpected facet to your immune system: It can synthesize its own antiviral molecules in response to viral infections. My laboratory studies a protein that makes these natural antiviral molecules. Far from a modern human invention, nature evolved cells to make their own “drugs”
A team of scientists led by Dr. Kei-ichi TAKATA from the Center for Genomic Integrity within the Institute for Basic Science (IBS), has discovered a new type of DNA repair mechanism that cancer cells use to recover from next-generation cancer radiation therapy.
Around this time of year, my biology for science majors course begins to cover the core of the inner workings of life on Earth. How do cells get energy, how