A new study led by Bruno Silva Santos, group leader and vice-director at the Instituto de Medicina Molecular João Lobo Antunes (iMM; Portugal), and published in the scientific journal Cell Reports* discovered...
The daily rotation of Earth and its yearly voyage around the Sun marks the natural rhythm of life on the planet. Human health indicators such...
The ways in which particles, such as sand or liquid droplets, behave during various mechanical processes is well studied. Typically, in situations where space is...
Cultures from across the globe have used plant and animal extracts as food and traditional medicine. For instance, Asians, especially in Korea, China, and Japan,...
Targeted Covalent Inhibitors (TCIs), such as aspirin (Bufferin®), have a long history of more than 120 years, and most of them are synthetic small molecules....
11th February, Genova (Italy) – In the occasion of the "International Day of Women and Girls in Science", Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT- Italian Institute...
Computer software developed at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis can predict what happens to complex gene networks when individual genes are missing...
Put on a virtual reality headset and, chances are, it will look like you are viewing the world through a screen door. Current flat panel...
Two common wild plants contain extracts that inhibit the ability of the virus that causes COVID-19 to infect living cells, an Emory University study finds....
Physics of molecules leads to biological functionsCredit: MPI-CBG/Katrin Boes Physics of molecules leads to biological functions "How do the building blocks in our cells know...
Professor Hiroaki Suga of the University of Tokyo has been awarded the 2023 Wolf Prize in chemistry, in an announcement by the foundation overseeing the...
Autophagy, or “self-eating”, is an essential cellular quality control mechanism that clears the cell of protein aggregates and damaged organelles. This mechanism is inactive under...
Researchers from The University of Queensland have discovered the active compound from an edible mushroom that boosts nerve growth and enhances memory. Professor Frederic Meunier from...
Time-resolved spectroscopy is a tool that provides access to the time-scale of chemical reactions as they happen. With the help of ultra-short light pulses, it...
Kyoto, Japan -- Unchecked hunting and environmental degradation in tropical forests, which previous studies have correlated with the reduction of large animals in this biome,...
