Craftsmen tile walls or floors by hand; but how can you get an ordered monolayer onto a substrate when the “tiles” are microscopically small instead of big and…
The cancer drug asparaginase fails to help cure some children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) because molecules released by certain cells in the bone…
Dyscalculia is just as prevalent in the population as dyslexia and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder – around 5% of the population is affected. However,…
The news is reported in the latest edition of the Royal Society of Chemistry journal The Analyst.Drs Thomas Balkenhol and Fred Lisdat and a team at the…
This result is a great advance due to the shortage of donors of this transparent epithelium located in the anterior segment of the eyeball that refracts the…
It is already widely known that the tumour suppressor p53 (a protein) plays a critical role in protecting us from cancer. Much of what we know about p53 comes…
Steve Jackson has emerged as one of the international leaders in the field of recombinational repair, structure of damaged chromatin and cellular DNA damage….
Roger Williams has made a world-leading contribution to our understanding of how inositol lipids can act as messengers regulating the function of proteins at a…
This work has explained, for the first time, how specificity in translation is achieved that is so much greater than that expected from the hydrogen bonding…
Dr. Gürol Süel, assistant professor of pharmacology, said his research and that of his colleagues published today in the journal Science represents “a new…
This work, appearing March 23 in Science, also suggests that when the first ancestral primate inherited a new type of photoreceptor more than 40 million years…
Species with differentiated sex chromosomes (X and Y in humans, for example) get around the fact that males and females get different-sized portions of sex…
Researchers funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) have developed a mathematical model to examine how organisms can…
B12, the most chemically complex of all vitamins, is essential for human health. Four Nobel Prizes have been awarded for research related to B12, but one…
Dr Klaus Pors, a Medicinal Chemist based at the University’s Institute of Cancer Therapeutics, has been awarded £96,474 by Yorkshire Cancer Research to develop…
The news is reported in the latest edition of the Royal Society of Chemistry journal Soft Matter.A snail’s slime acts as both a glue and a lubricant, allowing…
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