Lasker Award for Michael N. Hall from the University of Basel
Credit: University of Basel, Peter Schnetz Professor Michael N. Hall from the Biozentrum of the University of Basel receives the Lasker Basic Medical Research Award...
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Gut microbiota of larvae has an impact on mosquito’s ability to transmit human pathogens
Credit: © Institut Pasteur Mosquitoes are holometabolous insects (i.e. organisms that go through a complete metamorphosis). As such, they occupy two main habitats during their...
A protein that extends life of yeast cells
Credit: (Image: University of Basel/SNI/Nano Imaging Lab) To understand and control aging is the aspiration of many scientists. Researchers at the Biozentrum of the University...
Paving the way towards ‘designer organelles’
Research published today, by an inter-disciplinary group from the University of Leeds, outlines their work in creating an alternative pathway for peroxisome organelles to import...
Blindness study shows how gene causes middle-age sight loss
Blindness study shows how gene causes middle-age sight loss. Chemical changes in the eye that can lead to blindness have been identified by scientists, a...
The bacteria responsible for legionellosis modulates the host cell metabolism to its advantage
Credit: © Institut Pasteur. Intracellular pathogens adopt various strategies to circumvent the defences of the host cell and to proliferate intracellularly. One specific strategy is...
Bone marrow models to study blood and musculoskeletal disorders
(Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT) ) For her research on development of hematological and musculoskeletal disorders, Dr. Cornelia Lee-Thedieck, scientist at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology,...
A ‘virtual heart’ to simulate arrhythmia
Credit: MIPT Press Office A group of researchers from MIPT and Ghent University (Belgium) has developed the first realistic model able to reproduce the complexity...
Parkinson’s severity assessed through drawing
Credit: Courtesy of Dinesh Kumar and Ms. Poonam Zham of the 'Affordable diagnostics' group in RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia Researchers in Australia asked volunteers to...
Certara paper shows viral kinetic modeling grows flu knowledge, advances drug development
Certara®, the global leader in model-informed drug development and regulatory science, today announced that its comprehensive influenza viral kinetic modeling review has just been published...
New microscopy method for quick and reliable 3-D imaging of curvilinear nanostructures
Credit: Cécile Hébert/Emad Oveisi/EPFL Physical and biological sciences increasingly require the ability to observe nano-sized objects. This can be accomplished with transmission electron microscop..
UCLA biologists slow aging, extend lifespan of fruit flies
Credit: Nature Communications/Anil Rana UCLA biologists have developed an intervention that serves as a cellular time machine -- turning back the clock on a key...
ERC Starting Grants: 605 million to 406 top researchers across Europe
(European Research Council) The European Research Council has announced today the awarding of its Starting Grants to 406 early-career researchers throughout Europe. The funding, worth...
Will mallards hybridize their cousins out of existence?
Credit: Gary Kramer/USFWS (public domain) Mallards -- the familiar green-headed ducks of city parks -- are one of a group of closely related waterfowl species,...
Investigating the mechanisms of metastasis
Credit: Children's Hospital Los Angeles Cancer metastasis - the spread of disease from the original site to a distant organ - remains a major challenge...
