A new study led by Marco Fumasoni, Principal Investigator at Fundação GIMM, shows that evolution can substantially reduce cell size without significantly compromising cells’ ability to grow. The work, carried out in yeast in collaboration with researchers at Cornell University, USA, was published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

A study published in Cell advances understanding of how drugs shape vital cellular structures known as biomolecular condensates, blob-like mechanisms that drive gene regulation processes and have been linked to Alzheimer's, ALS and cancer.

A Virginia Tech-led team of international scientists has solved one of the last major mysteries in millipede evolution, revealing new clues about a group of animals that helped pave the way for life on land. The findings, published in Current Biology, complete the first evolutionary history of all living millipede orders. By combining genomic data from living species with morphological evidence from fossils, researchers traced the group's origins to nearly 460 million years ago — suggesting millipedes may have been present long before the oldest known millipede fossils.