Life & Chemistry

Life & Chemistry

Targeting Sugar Structures on Viruses and Tumor Cells

The laboratory directed by Arne Skerra, Professor of Biological Chemistry, has its focus on designing artificial binding proteins for therapeutic applications.

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Sustainable Amino Acid Production Through Fermentation Innovation

A team led by Professor Yvonne Mast from the Leibniz Institute DSMZ-German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures GmbH in Braunschweig has succeeded in…

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Biophysicists Create Innovative Nanofiber Using Electrospinning

Electrospinning

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New Strategy for Managing Inflammatory Pain Revealed

A group of researchers from Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin has discovered a new mechanism of long-lasting pain relief. The cell-signaling protein…

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Silkworms Spin New Sticky Molecules for Innovation

Working with collaborators at Kyushu University in Japan, biochemist Jasmeen Merzaban and her team engineered silkworms to produce different variants of…

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New Method Cuts DNA Errors for Efficient Synthetic Biology

Moreover, large-scale synthesis of DNA via such replication is a cornerstone of synthetic biology. However, just like the way we write or type an article, this…

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Edit Multiple Genome Fragments Simultaneously: New Advances

Scientists can now edit multiple sites in the genome at the same time to learn how different DNA stretches co-operate in health and disease.

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Discovering Life’s Building Blocks: Rutgers Researchers Shine Light

Rutgers researchers have discovered the origins of the protein structures responsible for metabolism: simple molecules that powered early life on Earth and…

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Automated Analysis Enhances Understanding of Brain Vasculature

Changes in the blood vessels are a hallmark of numerous brain disorders – from traumatic brain injury to stroke. Even diseases such as Alzheimer's show changes…

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Perturbation-Free Methods Reveal Insights on Single Molecules

Spectroscopic analyses are based on the interaction of matter with light and represent the most important experimental tool to study the properties of…

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Blood Stem Cells: Bone Memory Enhances Immunity Insights

These findings should have a significant impact on future vaccination strategies and pave the way for new treatments of an underperforming or over-reacting…

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Sustainable CO2 Use: Innovations with Modified Bacteria

New paths to the bio-economic use of CO2

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A hidden electronic transition 'S0 → Tn' in heavy-atom-containing molecules

In recent years, researchers have paid much attention to techniques for processing materials using visible light because this is safer and easier to handle…

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Bristol Researchers Innovate Drug Design Using VR Technology

The findings, published in the journal PLOS ONE describe how researchers used VR to understand how common medications work on a molecular level.

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Molecular Map Advances Plant Science Understanding

Every cell of any organism contains the complete genetic information, or the “blueprint”, of a living being, encoded in the sequence of the so-called…

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Microbiome Dynamics: Understanding Stability in Organisms

Every multicellular creature in the world is colonized by an unimaginably large number of microorganisms and has evolved together with them in the history of…

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