New study reveals how human astroviruses bind to humans cells and paves the way for new therapies and vaccines Human astroviruses are a leading viral cause of the stomach bug—think vomiting, diarrhea, and fever. It often impacts young children and older adults, leading to vicious cycles of sickness and malnutrition, particularly for those in low and middle income countries. It’s very commonly found in wastewater studies, meaning it’s frequently circulating in communities. As of now, there are no vaccines for…
Ecologists believe that global climate change has had a particularly strong impact on animals and plants living in alpine regions, with expected changes in the…
Frogs and toads are green for a very good reason – it makes them harder to see in their leafy environments.
Researchers at the University of Liverpool have uncovered the molecular architecture and organisational landscape of thylakoid membranes from a model…
For several years now, the team of the Macromolecular Crystallography Department (MX) at HZB headed by Dr. Manfred Weiss together with the Drug Design Group…
For many people algae are just an odorous nuisance on their vacation beach or unwelcome guests in the garden pond and aquarium.
Dengue virus is a very important mosquito-transmitted viral pathogen, causing 390 million human infections each year. Dengue is common in more than 100…
Electron cryo-microscopy has become increasingly important in recent years, especially in shedding light on protein structures. The developers of the new…
Biologists from the University of Bayreuth have discovered a uniquely rapid form of regeneration in injured neurons and their function in the central nervous…
Superheavy elements are intriguing nuclear and atomic quantum systems that challenge experimental probing as they do not occur in nature and, when synthesized,…
Animals as model organisms have so far often been essential for pharmaceutical research – they often provide important information on the efficacy of drugs or…
The bromine molecule (Br2) is widely used for bromination of a variety of organic compounds, where bromination reactions take place via a radical mechanism*2).
Various diseases of the digestive tract, for example severe intestinal inflammation in humans, are closely linked to disturbances in the natural mobility of…
DNA is the molecule that stores information about the structure and functioning of living organisms. This “book of life” is a carefully arranged…
KAIST researchers have used an X-ray method to track how proteins fold, which could improve computer simulations of this process, with implications for…
Department B for Internal Medicine of the University Medical Center Greifswald successfully used, within an international multi-center trial, a special…
With increasing age, and especially in neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s, proteins tend to misfold and aggregate into harmful deposits both inside…
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