People have long been dealing with questions about the mechanisms that make our body cells age and how to counteract these mechanisms. Due to their function in…
Many of the antibiotics used today were developed from natural products made by bacteria themselves in order to ward off other bacteria. These products used to…
Carbon dioxide emissions are killing off coral reefs and kelp forests as heat waves and ocean acidification damage marine ecosystems, scientists have warned.
A team of engineers at the University of Notre Dame is using the backyard torches as part of an effort to mimic the soot oxidation process in a diesel engine…
The industrial production of methionine from petrochemical source materials is currently done via a six-step chemical process that requires highly toxic…
A cutting-edge laboratory technique that turns human stem cells into brain-like tissue now recapitulates human brain development more accurately than ever,…
Can you tell the smell of a rose from the scent of a lilac? If so, you have your brain's piriform cortex to thank. Compared to many parts of the brain, the…
The neuroscientist Dr David Vilchez and his team at CECAD, the University of Cologne’s Cluster of Excellence for Aging Research, have made an important step…
Catalysts are the result of many chemists searching to unravel the beauty of molecules and the mystery of chemical reactions. Professor Jeong Young Park, whose…
Brain tumors are among the most aggressive and deadly cancers and a leading cause of cancer-related death in children and young adults.
“IgM is sort of the forgotten antibody,” Dr. Ruprecht, Scientist and Director of Texas Biomed's AIDS Research Program, said. “Most scientists believed its…
Chemical reactions take place around us all the time – in the air we breathe, the water we drink, and in the factories that make products we use in everyday…
Tinkering with a method they helped develop over the last few years, scientists have for the first time measured at the nanometer scale the characteristic…
The receptors, which viruses –and other extracellular moieties- use to enter cells, are often part of large complexes composed of many proteins. In the case of…
A team of researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion and the MPI für Kohlenforschung in Mülheim an der Ruhr have succeeded in…
The nervous system is a complex organ that relies on a variety of biological players to ensure daily function of the human body. Myelin–a membrane produced by…
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