Over the past quarter-century, changes in Antarctic sea-ice cover have had profound impacts on life on the ocean floor. As biologists from the Alfred Wegener…
Neural stem cells are not only responsible for early brain development – they remain active for an entire lifetime. They divide and continually generate new…
Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is an aggressive cancer of the blood-forming system. It affects the hematopoietic stem cells, or blood stem cells, of various…
When we find something particularly beautiful or impressive, we literally get big eyes: Our pupils dilate. The pupil controls how much light enters the eye and…
It has been known for many decades that synthetic polymers subjected to mechanical stress generate mechanoradicals by rupture of chemical bonds. But could…
In nature, every species must be equipped with a strategy to be able to survive in response to danger. Plants, too, have innate systems that are triggered in…
Scientists from the University of Groningen have developed a method that combines different resolution levels in a computer simulation of biological membranes.
New CU Boulder research published today in Science Advances shows how these specialized compartments, known as carboxysomes, work and how their activity can be…
Exposure to bisphenol A (BPA), an industrial chemical used to make certain plastics and resins, inner coatings for food cans and bottle tops, thermal paper…
Five fingers on each hand, five toes on each foot – the entire symmetry of our body is controlled by the HOX genes during development. This group of genes is…
Electrochemical reactions that occur in processes like ethanolic fermentation include the transformation of sugars into alcohol and carbon dioxide. Similar…
Bacteria of the species Thermus thermophilus possess two types of extensions on their surface (pili) for the purpose of motion and for capturing and absorbing…
Walking across the room to switch on a light – such a simple everyday activity involves enormously complex computations by the brain as it requires…
A research team led by Prof. Dr. Andreas Walther and Prof. Dr. Henning Jessen from the Cluster of Excellence Living, Adaptive and Energy-autonomous Materials…
Several drugs approved for treating hepatitis C viral infection were identified as potential candidates against COVID-19, a new disease caused by the…
Communication and organized behaviour is considered to be the quintessence of living systems. For example, understanding how cellular patterns form is one of…
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