“It's not just about the bees, it's about the survival of humanity,” says Professor Thomas Brück, who heads the Werner Siemens Chair of Synthetic Biotechnology…
So-called modular vaccines in which the antigen – the pathogen component against which the immune protection is to be developed – is physically connected…
Every day in the bone marrow several billion blood cells are formed. This constant supply is ensured by blood stem cells located in special niches within the…
eForFuel is a Horizon 2020 EU project launched in March 2018 and scheduled to run for the next 4 years with funding of around 4 million Euros.
The response of endogenous immunoglobulin E that leads to the development of allergies is “pointless”, because it interacts with inflammatory cells to turn…
In the body, the immune system often begins its response to various attackers in the same way: the body activates immune cells, so-called phagocytes, which…
The technique, reported June 4 in the journal Nature Materials, uses synthetic hydrogel particles (microgels) to present a protein known as the Fas ligand…
Professor Edward Lemke will be coordinating a new Priority Program researching the formation and function of characteristic protein complexes in the cell. The…
“Thrombocytes do much more than to stop bleedings and to cause heart attacks,” explains Professor Bernhard Nieswandt, Director of the Institute for…
Measles virus is highly contagious. The probability of contracting the virus from an infected individual is greater than 90 percent, unless the person in…
A neutron “lives” for almost 15 minutes before it decays. The elementary particles remain stable as long as they are in the atomic nuclei. In isolation,…
Enzymes are tools of nature that accelerate almost all biochemical reactions in living cells as biological catalysts. For this reason, enzymes have been used…
ClpB forms hexameric ring structure and its protomer consists of two ATPase cores, AAA1 and AAA2, and two additional domains, N-domain and M-domain. Using the…
“This represents one of the rare success stories in conservation. The population of mountain gorillas in the Virunga Volcanoes has more than doubled in the…
In mammals, including humans, cells which make up the body are diploids, which means that a cell contains a pair of each chromosome. A non-diploid state…
Lung and pancreatic cancer are collectively referred to as KRAS tumors, as they share the same genetic error. This error means that the KRAS protein, involved…
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