Organisms are composed of a variety of structures including muscles, internal organs, and brains, all of which are created through a process known as…
The division of labor is more efficient than a struggle through life without help from others – this is also true for microorganisms.Researchers from Research…
“Raman scattering provides information on the ways molecules vibrate, which is equivalent to taking their fingerprint. It’s a bit like a bar code,” said the…
Small difference, large effect: Most biological molecules occur in two variants, an original and its mirror image. As a result, they are related to one another…
Now, researchers from MIT and Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) have developed a new type of nanoparticle that can be delivered orally and absorbed through…
Nature builds flawless diamonds, sapphires and other gems. Now a Northwestern University research team is the first to build near-perfect single crystals out…
In order to protect themselves from harmful substances, cells need to keep the mitochondria – the boiler room, so to speak – shipshape. Up to now, it was…
The research suggests that a protein strongly implicated in human cancer also governs the non-protein-coding genome. The non-coding genome, previously referred…
Two months ago, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a sobering report estimating that antibiotic-resistant bacteria last year caused more…
An international team of scientists, including researchers at Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC), has identified a key metabolic enzyme that common…
In first-aid situations, wounds must be quickly and effectively closed to stop blood loss and prevent infection. For treatment on arrival in a hospital, the…
If this mechanism is impaired in oocytes, it can result in chromosome missegregation and production of aneuploid fetuses, leading to abnormalities like Down’s…
A team of researchers at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) has identified a leukemia-specific stretch of DNA called an enhancer element that enables…
“A seahorse is one the slowest swimming fish that we know of, but it's able to capture prey that swim at incredible speeds for their size,” said Brad Gemmell,…
Humankind has a weight problem – and not only in the industrialised nations, either: the growing prosperity in many Asian or Latin American countries goes hand…
Consequently, damage to or theft of technical equipment represents a dramatic financial and scientific loss. Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for…
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