Using neutron crystallography, a Los Alamos research team has mapped the three-dimensional structure of a protein that breaks down polysaccharides, such as the…
Growing concern about the energy crisis and the seriousness of environmental contamination urgently demand the development of renewable energy sources as…
The human heart beats approximately 35 million times every year, effectively pumping blood into the circulation via four different heart valves. Unfortunately,…
When Harsh Bais, a botanist at the University of Delaware, emailed Connor Sweeney to tell the high school student he would be willing to mentor him on a…
Both the genetics and the environment have an effect on the individual behavior of animals – or at least that is the common doctrine. But what happens when…
Summer is approaching, and for many allergy sufferers this means it is time to start fearing bee stings. “Allergic reactions to insect venoms are potentially…
Nothing beats nature. The diverse and wonderful varieties of cells and tissues that comprise the human body are evidence of that.
The type III secretion system (T3SS) is a needle-like molecular machine found in gram negative bacteria that transports pathogenic proteins from the bacteria…
Organisms inhabiting deep-sea hydrothermal vents face quite some challenges.
The report, in Genome Announcements, comes after almost seven years of research, according to Dr. Tim Devarenne, AgriLife Research biochemist and principal…
All bacteria have developed clever mechanisms for survival and propagation within host cells. Salmonella are a typical example: usually they hide in…
A team of European and Latin American scientists from the TU Braunschweig in Germany has discovered five previously not listed subspecies of the marine…
Certain blood vessels in the brainstem constrict when blood vessels elsewhere in the body would dilate. And that contrary behavior is what keeps us breathing,…
The Arabidopsis thaliana is a tiny, inconspicuous and herbaceous offshoot of the family of cruciferous plant that one might easily overlook in a meadow, yet…
Eukaryotic cells contain thousands of proteins, which are distributed to different cellular compartments with specific functions. A German-Swiss team of…
Rice University bioengineers who specialize in creating tools for synthetic biology have unveiled the latest version of their “biofunction generator and…
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