Two-dimensional, flexible, tear-resistant, lightweight, and versatile are all properties that apply to graphene, which is often described as a miracle…
Temnothorax americanus is a slavemaking ant found in northeastern America. These tiny social insects neither rear their offspring nor search for food…
In Parkinson’s disease, certain neurons in the brain gradually die off. This so-called “neurodegeneration” has manifold potential consequences that range from…
In a recent study published online in the Journal of Bacteriology, biochemistry professor Michael Cox and his team describe blasting E. coli bacteria with…
DNA replication is a complex process in which a helicase ring separates the DNA molecule's two entwined and encoded strands, allowing each to precisely…
The lung is a highly complex organ in which a great number of very different cells have to work together to enable normal breathing and protection against…
When DNA in the cell nucleus gets damaged, our cells can resort to a variety of repair mechanisms. A recent study published in 'Nature Cell Biology', to which…
A combination of X-ray crystallography and cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) assisted in a collaborative effort to obtain the highest-resolution structure of…
Like a well-guarded fortress, the human brain attacks intruders on sight. Foreign objects, including neural probes used to study and treat the brain, do not…
The researchers have compiled and analysed worldwide data from field experiments with ozone and scaled up the effects to the global level. The results show…
(EGFR refers to “epidermal growth factor receptor”, a protein that plays an important role in signaling from the extracellular environment to a cell.) However,…
Recent advances in battery technology, from the engineering of their cases to the electrochemistry that takes place inside them, has enabled the rapid rise of…
Sleep is far from an inactive time for the brain: while rats (and humans) are asleep, neurons in the hippocampus fire rapidly. After a rat has repeatedly moved…
Even though the consequent gene GNI-A1 itself results in a lower grain yield, the researchers showed that its mutation, the reduced-function allele of GNI-A1,…
An international research team led by Friedrich Schiller University in Jena has developed a highly sensitive cell model to study the complex effects – and side…
The composition of the microorganisms living in and on our body – the so-called microbiome – has an enormous influence on human health. So far, it has not been…
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