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Researchers have developed a new, low-cost method to build DNA nanotubes block by block – a breakthrough that could help pave the way for scaffolds...

Newly discovered taste receptors for hydrogen peroxide allow worms to indirectly detect light. Human taste receptors are specialized to distinguish several distinct compounds: sugars taste...

Mitochondria not only are the cell’s main power producers, they are also the chief cooks and bottle washers.When they get out of whack, the cell...

It is well-known that bacteria can support each others’ growth and exchange nutrients. Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena, Germany,...

Scientists at the University of Sheffield have succeeded in using a 3D printed guide to help nerves damaged in traumatic incidents repair themselves. John Haycock,...

For wounds to close, cells need to move collectively in one direction in a coordinated fashion. Until now the central molecular mechanism that allows cells...

Many therapeutic cancer vaccines that are currently being developed are designed to direct the immune system against altered cancer-cell proteins. However, these vaccines can only...