Since the 2004 discovery of graphene, the world's thinnest (one-atom-thick) and strongest (200 times stronger than steel) material, researchers have been…
When people think of glutamate, the first thing they remember is the flavour enhancer that is often used in Asian cuisine. Glutamate is also an important…
Poetry, an aesthetic object, is deeply rooted in all human cultures. But despite its universality, the neural mechanisms of poetry appreciation are seldom…
A neural circuit comprises a population of nerve cells (neurons) interconnected by synapses. Once activated, these units carry out specific functions that…
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital scientists have identified previously unknown functions of the enigmatic enzyme caspase-6. The findings show that…
The human brain is an immense network of a multitude of cells connected by billions of nerve fibres. Almost 90 percent of the connections in our brain are…
Intestinal stem cell metabolism is facilitated by mitochondria – the in-cell power plants. Chronic inflammation processes inhibit the cells’ metabolism and…
When bacteria or the pathogens that cause malaria invade living human cells, these cells can be very unwelcoming. They try to drive away the by releasing…
This basic mechanism of early embryonic development may also help to guide tissue engineering approaches for regenerative medicine in the future. The findings…
In a paper published online April 14, 2020, in Cell Reports, members of the Washburn Lab describe the combination of three approaches — affinity tag protein…
Described in Nature Communications, the algorithm called “minimum epistasis interpolation” results in a visualization of how a protein could evolve to either…
Cells in some of the body's most vulnerable entry routes to bacterial infection buffer themselves when the immune system detects danger by reorganizing the…
Currently, there are no effective treatments against COVID-19. Medications commonly used against malaria or Ebola, as well as antiviral drugs, are being…
Edith Smith bred a bluer and shinier Common Buckeye at her butterfly farm in Florida, but it took University of California, Berkeley, graduate student Rachel…
But the detailed formation mechanisms of core-shell structures in solution, especially, at gas-liquid interface are still not completely clear, which is mostly…
Crucial for healthy cell development: the regulation of separase
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