Amongst other applications, these can be used to produce oral vaccines which, upon being ingested, will be able to immunise against diseases. Moreover, this…
Natural compounds derived from a sea anemone extract and a shrub plant have been found to block the autoimmune disease response in type-1 diabetes and…
Scientists at Harvard University have developed a computer model that, for the first time, can fully map and predict how small proteins fold into…
A new brain study finds major differences between women with serious depression and healthy women in a brain-chemical system that's crucial to stress and…
Researchers at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science today announced they have developed a new reverse osmosis (RO) membrane that…
The lipid A in plant cells is evidently not toxic. The human intestine contains billions of Gram-negative bacteria, but lipid A does not become a problem…
Scientists at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC have identified a protein that is critical to the development of inflammation during lung infection in…
They have generally been considered bacterial diseases and are therefore usually treated with antibiotics. New research, published in the December 15 issue of…
Using protein structures for the first time in such a study, the research establishes one of the influences that geochemistry has had upon life.The study,…
The ocean is full of life—large, small, and microscopic. Bacteriophage (phage) viruses are minute, self-replicating bundles that alter microorganisms’ genetic…
Carbon nanotubes have already found applications in engineering but so far any biological application has been hampered by their poor interaction with…
Researchers led by a University of Utah medicinal chemist have developed a novel method to make drugs for cancer and other diseases from bacteria found in…
For the first application of the new vector five subjects with chronic HIV infection who had failed to respond to at least two antiretroviral regimens were…
Social animals have to make decisions that affect not just themselves, but everyone in the group. For example, when embarking on a journey together,…
The findings may not come as a great surprise to exhausted globe-trotting business travelers, but the research nonetheless provides, in rather stark terms, new…
Honeybee plays a central role in the honey-making process. Harmful antibiotics for the human being are used to prevent diseases which affect bees from damaging…
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