Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Develop Antibodies With Improved Ability for Preventing Formation of Toxic Protein Particles Linked to Diseases…
In the 14th century, the Black Death claimed the lives of one third of the population of Europe. Even though the bacterium Yersinia pestis, which causes the…
The collaborative research — led by Phillip Klebba, professor and head of the department of biochemistry — clarifies how microorganisms colonize animal hosts…
After years of basic research, scientists at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) are increasingly able to understand the mechanisms underlying the human…
The Institute of Chemical and Engineering Sciences (ICES), a research institute of The Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), officially opened…
Photovoltaics continues to be an expensive technology. Dye-based solar cells may represent a more cost-effective alternative to traditional solar cells. In…
New clues about the bacteria that cause Lyme disease could lead to a novel strategy to reduce infections, according to a study to be published in mBio®, the…
Water plays a huge role in biological processes, from protein folding to membrane formation, and it could be that this transformation is useful in a way not…
This research could help increase the success of raising rare ornamental fish to adulthood. It also has implications for aquaculture, since accelerating the…
Researchers at Rice University have found a way to kill some diseased cells and treat others in the same sample at the same time. The process activated by a…
They expected to find many tough microbes suited to extreme environments, such as those that derive from archaea, a domain of single-celled species sometimes…
The regulation of important signal molecules that are critical for the formation of various cell types can be influenced by a chemically produced variant of…
A tiny, translucent zebrafish that glows green when its liver makes glucose has helped an international team of researchers identify a compound that regulates…
Bulk solvents, widely used in the chemical industry, pose a serious threat to human health and the environment. As a result, there is growing interest in…
Although this finding emerges from the study of a single toxic molecule and the protein that it transports, Whitehead Member David Sabatini says this…
Solvents are omnipresent in the chemical industry, and are a major environmental and safety concern. Therefore the large interest in mechanochemistry: an…