A new study from Caltech outlines how protein engineering techniques might help achieve this milestone. The researchers engineered protein-shelled…
Insects versus plants in the evolutionary arms race: specialists and generalists
Thinking, feeling, acting – our brain is the control center in the head that steers everything we do. A network of about 100 billion nerve cells linked…
Like all vertebrate animals, humans use T cells in immune defense in order to protect the body against infections and malignant cells. Immune cells mature in…
Scientists from the universities of Melbourne and Göttingen have gained new insights into the complex stochastic patterns of opening and closing observed in…
When animals get sick, they may change their behaviour, becoming less active, for example. The study’s lead author, Patricia Lopes from the Department of…
Plants own several thousands of substances with diverse functions. Those compounds are divided in different groups, including primary metabolites, as sugars…
Stem cells are undifferentiated cells that have the potential to differentiate into many cell types. However, the cell types that somatic stem cells produce…
The investigated proteins are called “phytochromes”. They consist of thousands of atoms and can be thought of as tiny, microscopic machines. These proteins are…
About half of the carbon dioxide that is produced by humankind, and which plays an important role in global warming, is taken up by seas and oceans. In…
„In Germany, animal protection is particularly important and anchored in the constitution. Humans may not cause animals unnecessary pain, suffering or injury”,…
The protein Interleukin-6 (IL-6) unleashes its different effects by binding with Interleukin-6 receptors (IL-6R). These receptors exist in two versions:…
The study used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to measure human brain activation. “Using fMRI data, we wanted to know if given a whole sentence,…
The specificity of this regulation originates in the binding interactions between special regulatory proteins, called transcription factors (TFs), and short…
When one cell divides into two – that is how all forms of life are propagated – the newly born daughter cells have to be equipped with everything they will…
Wine growers and nurseries would benefit from detecting the dangerous crown gall disease in their vines before it breaks out. Such an early diagnosis is not…
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