Non-specialists see a dark purple solid that appears to have no specific properties: Experts instead are delighted about a nanographene with a central core…
Catherine Aaron and Gabrielle Beaudry were 17 when they knocked on the door of the laboratory of Alex Parker, a neuroscience researcher at the University of…
Mould is primarily associated with various health risks. However, it also plays a lesser-known role, but one which is particularly important in biotechnology….
The researchers reported in the journal Brain, Behavior, and Immunity that proteins in the family MHCI, or major histocompatibility complex class I, “prune”…
Writing in the April 11 issue of the Journal of Clinical Investigation, researchers at University of California, San Diego School of Medicine say abnormalities…
Using genetic and morphological analyses the team revealed the genus Malayemys to comprise three instead of two species as previously thought. The researchers…
Adsorption refers to the process by which molecules of a gas collect on the surface of a solid. Metal-organic frameworks are highly porous materials which are…
The paper resulted from collaborative research led by the U.S. Forest Service with partners including the U.S. Geological Survey, the National Ocean and…
The intestinal surface is a rapidly renewing tissue, whose regeneration is driven by stem cells. Damage of these intestinal stem cells, as observed upon…
An ageing cell goes through major negative changes: defective proteins are not eliminated as they should, mitochondria – the power plants of a cell – do not function properly, the ability to sense nutrients is lost. All of these defects lead to shortened lifespan. One might think at first glance, they appear to have nothing to do with each other on a molecular level. “In fact, they are highly interconnected”, says Adam Antebi,Director at the Max Planck Institute for Biology…
Several bacterial species have pledged promise in fighting tumors. However, most of them are pathogens. In order to use them as a weapon against cancer and…
Plants use certain colour pigments in order to convert light into energy by way of photosynthesis. They allow plants to gather light energy. This also works in…
Most people harbor HSV-1, frequently as a strain acquired from their mothers shortly after birth and carried for the rest of their lives. The new discovery was…
Four letters – A, C, G and T – stand in for the four chemical bases that store information in DNA. A sequence of these same four letters, repeating in a…
What happens when we get hungry? How does the brain control energy expenditure? To find answers to these questions a research team led by Jens Brüning,…
To an outside observer major construction sites often look quite chaotic, as hundreds of workers come together in constantly changing combinations, moving back…
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