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…
Microorganisms are used in many industrial applications, including production of fuels, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, and foods (e.g., ethanol, acetate,…
It might seem like fruit flies would have nothing in common with computers, but new research from the Salk Institute reveals that the two identify novel…
As global warming presents one of the biggest challenges to humanity in the 21st century, the quest to curb mounting CO2 emissions is more pressing than ever.
A team of researchers from the University of Tübingen and the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics has found that the cerebral cortex plays a much…
In 2018 approximately 44.2 million Germans over the age of 14 wore glasses on a regular or occasional basis. Research has been done on the bacterial…
Ever since the discovery of the reprogramming of normal (somatic) body cells in so-called induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS cells), the development of cell…
In daylight, Neonothopanus nambi is a rather unremarkable brown fungus. But a surprise hides behind the drab façade: at night, the fungus glows ghostly green.
Scientists at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Biomedicine in Münster and of the Medical Faculty of the University of Münster have developed a technique…
Whether animals, plants, fungi, bacteria or people: enzymes containing iron are at work in almost all living organisms. In the human liver, such an enzyme acts…
Type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune disease destroying the insulin-producing beta cells in the patient’s pancreas. Current approaches for replacement therapies…
A general concept in biology is that cells use two different systems to transport substances across their membrane: selective pores, which allow passive transport driven by a concentration gradient, and active transport complexes, which use energy to transport substances against a gradient. Now scientists from the University of Groningen, together with colleagues from Germany and Spain, have described a system that combines a pore and a transporter to import potassium ions into cells against an extreme concentration gradient. The results…
Even in the Middle Ages, gold particles were used to create vibrant red and blue colours, for example to illustrate biblical scenes in stained glass windows….
The setting is always in the same river sections. And the victims are always brown trout. Within a matter of days, their skin turns dark and the animals…
Frogs' capture their prey with the sticky mucus covering their tongues, but this mucus isn't inherently adhesive. Frog mucus is thought to be…
In a paper published in Nature Communications this week, researchers documented extensive diversity in the microbial communities living in the extremely hot,…
New generations of these devices are being made that manipulate molecules or work with smaller concentrations of molecules, for example detecting rare cancer…
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