Sugar-coated viral proteins hijack and hitch a ride out of cells
New drug target for sugar-coated virusesCredit: Image: ?ukasz F. Sobala Researchers from the Universities of Melbourne, York, Warwick and Oxford have shed light on how...
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On the hunt for wild bananas in Papua New Guinea
Scientists are racing to collect and conserve wild banana species; a recent expedition to the epicenter of banana diversity shows that wild species hold traits...
Germanium telluride’s hidden properties at the nanoscale revealed
Credit: HZB Germanium telluride (GeTe) is known as a ferrolectric Rashba semiconductor with a number of interesting properties. The crystals consist of nanodomains, whose ferrolectric...
Baby dinosaurs were ‘little adults’
Paleontologists describe skeleton of a juvenile Plateosaurus for the first timeCredit: © Sauriermuseum Frick, Switzerland Long neck, small head and a live weight of several...
Atrophy can be combated by boosting expression of an enzyme produced in muscles
Study showed that targeted stimulation of PKA production promoted muscle growth and enhanced resistance to fatigueCredit: Dawit Gonçalves/FMRP-USP Researchers at the University of São Paulo...
phyloFlash: New software for fast and easy analysis of environmental microbes
Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology in Bremen are developing a user-friendly method to reconstruct and analyze SSU rRNA from raw metagenome...
LSU health team wins Best 2020 Radiology Image award
Credit: Schachner & Spieler - LSU Health New Orleans New Orleans, LA - AuntMinnie.com awarded Bradley Spieler, MD, Vice Chairman of Radiology Research and Associate...
Astronomers discover clues that unveil the mystery of fast radio bursts
UNLV astrophysicist Bing Zhang contributes to understanding the physical mechanisms of fast radio bursts in three papers published in NatureCredit: (Photo credit: Bojun Wang, Jinchen...
Swirl power: how gentle body movement will charge your mobile phone
Scientists have found a way to generate electricity from nylon, raising hopes that the clothes on our backs will become an important source of energy.Credit:...
A new candidate material for quantum spin liquids
Credit: Péter Szirmai In 1973, physicist and later Nobel laureate Philip W. Anderson proposed a bizarre state of matter: the quantum spin liquid (QSL). Unlike...
New insights into 3D printing of spacers and membranes
To also address the controversies on the feasibility of 3D printing for membranes, researchers from SUTD and NTU have coined a new term 'hybrid additive...
Doctoral student receives NSERC award to study innovative brain cancer treatment
Credit: Virginia Tech The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) supports research that results in "breakthrough answers to timeless questions." When choosing...
Scientists design magnets with outstanding properties
New lightweight magnets have possible real-world applicationsCredit: Rodolphe Clérac An international team of researchers led by the Centre de Recherche Paul Pascal (UMR 5031, CNRS...
Cancer researchers train white blood cells to attacks tumor cells
Credit: © NCT/UCC/André Wirsig Scientists at the National Center for Tumor Diseases Dresden (NCT/UCC) and Dresden University Medicine, together with an international team of researchers,...
Higher-resolution imaging of living, moving cells using plasmonic metasurfaces
Metasurface of self-assembled gold nanoparticles shown to improve resolution of fluorescence images of living cells under a widefield optical microscope to the theoretical limitCredit: Kaoru...