While it is known that this condensation step is important for skeletal development the exact role it plays in formation of bone and cartilage is not…
Just like land plants, algae use sunlight as an energy source. Many green algae actively move in the water; they can approach the light or move away from it….
The development of metastasis is responsible for more than 90% of cancer-related deaths, and patients with a metastatic disease are considered incurable.
The life-threatening blood disorder thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (TTP) is rare (2-3 people out of every million per year) and affects mainly young,…
Fodder experiments in guinea pigs provide insights into the causes of tooth wear / Findings could allow scientists to reconstruct the feeding behavior and…
In a recent study from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory, scientists have combined two membrane-bound protein complexes to…
The method commonly used to detect enantiomers is circular dichroism (CD) spectroscopy. It exploits the fact that light polarized into a circular wave (like a…
For the first time, researchers used benzene – a common hydrocarbon – to create a novel kind of molecular nanotube, which could lead to new nanocarbon-based…
With funding provided by the German Research Foundation (DFG) for the Collaborative Research Center/Transregio 128, researchers at the Medical Center of…
The human brain owes its characteristic wrinkled appearance to its outer layer, the cerebral cortex. During human evolution, the neocortex, the evolutionarily…
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a relatively common developmental disorder of communication and behavior that affects about 1 in 59 children in the US,…
Synchronization, in which two different systems oscillate in an identical way, underlies numerous collective phenomena observed in nature, providing an example…
Scientists at Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) have developed and analyzed a novel catalyst for the oxidation of 5-hydroxymethyl furfural, which is…
When it comes to our food intake, we are only partially in control. Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Metabolism Research in Cologne were able to show…
In the project “Logic Lab – Molecular logic lab-on-a-vesicle for intracellular diagnostics”, scientists from various disciplines are investigating how dye…
In order to respond both swiftly and appropriately to impulses, brain cells (“neurons”) need to have proteins directly at hand, i.e. not only in the cell body,…
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