The incidence of Legionnaires’ disease has increased in the past two decades. The natural habitat of Legionella is freshwater biotopes, where they mainly…
Chemists usually synthesize molecules using stochastic bond-forming collisions of the reactant molecules in solution. Nature follows a different strategy in…
Neuronal networks in the brain can process information particularly well when they are close to a critical point – or so brain researchers had assumed based on…
Anyone who believes that plants are organisms “without brains” that lack the ability to perceive and respond to the environment is wrong. Plants exhibit…
Cells assemble dynamically: their components are continuously exchanging and being replaced. This enables the structures to adapt easily to different…
Two proteins that act as a 'clutch' in cells to put them in gear and drive our immune response have been identified for the first time.
What, if robots could smell? Sniffing explosives at the airport, diagnosing diseases based on a patient’s breath, locating gas leaks and much more?
Patients treated for acute myeloid leukemia (AML) often achieve remission but then later experience relapses due to surviving subpopulations of leukemia stem…
A stealthy new drug-delivery system disguises chemotherapeutics as fat in order to outsmart, penetrate and destroy tumors.
Biologists Laura Carolina Leal and Felipe Passos performed a series of experiments in Brazil's Northeast region – specifically in the interior of Bahia State,…
Viruses are justly feared as ingenious pathogens, causing diseases in everything they invade, including virtually all bacteria, fungi, plants and animals.
The statistical model used for the predictions combines long-term satellite tracking data of the whales' movement patterns with environmental data such as…
Until August, the researchers want to compare a common pollen trap with a mobile lidar (light radar) in order to find out whether it is possible to distinguish…
Scientists have confirmed that viruses can kill marine algae called diatoms and that diatom die-offs near the ocean surface may provide nutrients and organic…
The Atacama Desert extends in the east of South America on a high plateau along the Pacific coast. Water vapour regularly rises here on the steep rocky coasts….
The survival and growth of cells are central factors in biological systems. Scientists such as Ulrich Gerland, Professor for Physics of Complex Biosystems at…
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