A key protein may represent a new way to use the immune system to speed healing and counter inflammatory, infectious and autoimmune diseases, according to…
The electric eel – the scaleless Amazonian fish that can deliver an electrical jolt strong enough to knock down a full-grown horse – possesses an electroshock…
Scientists of the Max-Born-Institut (MBI) in Berlin were able to show theoretically that the ultrafast x-ray camera is not only sensitive to inert core…
Heidelberg researchers have gained new insights on the function of a presenilin-related protein in the model organism baker’s yeast with regard to the…
In 2012, there were around 8.6 million cases of tuberculosis worldwide resulting in 1.3 million associated deaths according to the World Health Organisation…
A natural substance present in red wine, resveratrol, inhibits the formation of inflammatory factors that trigger cardiovascular diseases.
“Maybe they are part of the machinery that allows an organism to turn hundreds of genes off or on,” said Associate Professor of Biological Science Hank Bass.
Researchers at the Mechanobiology Institute at the National University of Singapore have comprehensively described the network of proteins involved in…
In a recent paper in the journal Nature Communications,* an international multi-laboratory team demonstrates a new software tool, the “erccdashboard,” to…
Geckos, found in places with warm climates, have fascinated people for hundreds of years. Scientists have been especially intrigued by these lizards, and have…
MIT biological engineers have created a new computer model that allows them to design the most complex three-dimensional DNA shapes ever produced, including…
This means the type of cell obtained from an individual patient to make pluripotent stem cells, determines what can be best done with them. For example, to…
They are one of the great hopes for target-oriented treatment approaches: the so-called small interfering RNA-molecules, siRNA. These are able to mute specific…
Researchers at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry in Martinsried near Munich have recently uncovered a previously unknown mechanism explaining how this…
A new National Science Foundation-supported project will provide computational tools designed to help identify and characterize the gene diversity of the…
By comparing patterns of genetic code from the brain tissue of alcoholics and nonalcoholics, the researchers discovered a particular set of genes co-expressed…
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