This finding from a current project by the Austrian Science Fund FWF was presented at the 5th International Conference on Multiple Comparison Procedures…
Egyptologists in Cairo announced last month that a tooth found in a wooden box associated with Hatshepsut exactly fitted the jaw socket and broken root of the…
Entitled “Chemical Genomics by Activity Monitoring of Proteases” (CAMP), the project was designed with the final objective of developing drugs to control…
In a paper published this week in the open access journal PLoS Biology, Thomas Alerstam, Mikael Rosen, and colleagues from the University of Lund in Sweden…
The fishing industry in Cuba generates great amounts of lobster waste, “a pollutant rich in proteins and chitin”, states Professor Carlos Andrés Peniche Covas,…
The new results are concerned with a phenomenon called cohesion, whereby two copies of a chromosome in the cell nucleus are held tightly together by a protein…
Genes, which make up about four percent of the genome, encode for proteins, “the building blocks of life.” An international collaboration of scientists led by…
In a deadly double whammy, Bak helps chop the finger-like filament shape of the cell's powerhouse, or mitochondrion, into vulnerable little spheres. Another…
Because of their similarity to patient tumors, these models are an exceptional tool for testing the efficacy of new drugs, adapting treatments to tumor…
Liverpool is one of only two universities in the UK with the machine, which can read up to 100 million DNA letters in a few hours compared to technology…
RNA interference (RNAi) is a natural cellular defence and regulation mechanism which works by eliminating unwanted RNA molecules. Its potential for use in…
Plants adapt their growth, including key steps in their life cycle such as germination and flowering, to take advantage of environmental conditions. They can…
A liquid that changes its color “on demand” and can take on any color of the rainbow one desires? A research team headed by Yadong Yin at the University of…
Key to understanding biological evolution is an important, but elusive, connection, known as the genotype-phenotype relationship, which translates the survival…
To protect us from disease our immune system employs macrophages, cells that roam our body in search of disease-causing bacteria. With the help of long…
The findings – published in the top scientific journal Nature – could rapidly advance research into the next generation of painkillers for relief of chronic…
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