Researchers have uncovered a novel weapon in the arsenal of bacteria that works in a similar way to common antibiotics.
The quantum superposition principle has been tested on a scale as never before in a new study by scientists at the University of Vienna in collaboration with…
“Currently our knowledge of biology is quite limited because most studies have been performed using so-called model animals like mice, flies, worms and fish…
Also remarkably, in both the hand and the foot, of the 30 muscles formed at about 7 weeks of gestation one third will become fused or completely absent by…
Acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL) is the most common cancer in children. This form of blood cancer is caused by malignant abnormal precursor cells of certain…
Preservatives are widely used in the food industry. They are necessary to extend the shelf life of products. On the other hand, preservatives reduce food…
Reporter genes work by encoding proteins that can be seen from outside the cell. One particularly popular reporter gene encodes something called the green…
New research reveals that the way viruses were perceived in terms of their architecture will need to be retooled, because they are actually structured in many…
Telomeres are protective caps at the ends of chromosomes that become shorter with each cell division. If they become so short that the genes they protect could…
Scientists led by Professor Stefan Rose-John, a biochemist at Kiel University (CAU) and member of the Cluster of Excellence “Precision Medicine in Chronic…
While whales and dolphins spend their entire life in the ocean, these air-breathing mammals actually evolved from terrestrial species. The transition from land…
The odor of vinegar or fruit lets fruit flies walk faster. To reach the food, they run until exhaustion. But despite their efforts, they do not get any closer…
When a cell divides into two daughter cells, it must replicate its DNA according to a very specific scenario. In the presence of some disruptive elements,…
In the next years, the Chair of Fluid Mechanics and Turbomachinery at the TU Bergakademie Freiberg wants to develop together with scientists of the…
Investigation of viral communities of sponges allows new insights into the mechanisms of symbiosis
For the first time, scientists in Bremen were able to observe bacteria forming pearl chains that protrude from the cell surface. These pearl chains serve to…
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