Tag: Biochemistry

Credit: Laboratory of Membrane Biology and Biophysics at The Rockefeller University In recent decades, treatment options for people with cystic ...

New antibiotics developed by Inserm and Université de Rennes 1

Not only are they effective against Gram-positive and negative multi-resistant bacteria, they also appear not to trigger resistance when used ...

Do teaching and communicating about microfluidics advances need improvement?

A group of researchers is encouraging more sharing of ideas and activities for teaching about microfluidics and outreach efforts to ...

How to equip the brake of immunity

Production of lymphocytes that suppress autoimmune diseases and inflammatory bowel diseasesCredit: Toho University Medical School The immune system is indispensable ...

Research shows that drinking Matcha tea can reduce anxiety

Credit: Dr. Yuki Kurauchi Many different countries have a tea culture, and Japanese Matcha tea is growing in popularity around ...

Treatment target pinpointed for liver cancer in teens and young adults

The suspect, an abnormal, fused protein, gathers enzymes that drive uncontrolled cell growthCredit: Mitchell H. Omar New findings show how ...

‘Liquid forensics’ could lead to safer drinking water

MU team develops new method of measuring the speed of sound in liquidsCredit: University of Missouri Ping! The popular 1990 ...

Researchers: Eggshells can help grow, heal bones

Discovery could lead to faster recovery from injury, illnessCredit: (Photo credit: Edwin Aguirre for UMass Lowell) LOWELL, Mass. - Eggshells ...

Scientists’ warning to humanity: Microbiology and climate change

International group of microbiologists cautions against dangers of leaving microbes out of the climate change equation When it comes to ...

Natural antioxidant helps improve immune-based therapies by modulating T-cells

Credit: Emma Vought, Medical University of South Carolina Shikhar Mehrotra, Ph.D. and Xue-Zhong Yu, M.D., National Institutes of Health-funded researchers ...

Left out to dry: A more efficient way to harvest algae biomass

University of Tsukuba researchers developed a new, highly efficient system for removing water from algae biomass with reusable nanostructured graphene, ...

One-molecule-thick coating to help improve disease and drug testing

A new breakthrough has the potential to improve sensors used to test for diseases and detect doping in sportsCredit: Dr. ...

Fighting drug resistance with fast, artificial enhancement of natural products

Credit: Image by Caitlin Devor, The University of Tokyo, CC-BY Researchers in Japan have identified multiple promising new drug candidates ...

Research team deciphers enzymatic degradation of sugar from marine alga

Credit: Thomas Wilfried Marine algae in the world's oceans store huge quantities of CO2, i.e. they bind approximately as much ...

Cancer genes and the tumor milieu

Credit: Kanazawa University The tumor microenvironment (TME) is a mix of fluids, immune cells and blood vessels which envelops the ...

Infection-fighting protein also senses protein misfolding in non-infected cells

Credit: Shawn Goyal Researchers at the University of Toronto have uncovered an immune mechanism by which host cells combat bacterial ...

Scientists find urine test could offer a non-invasive approach for diagnosis of IBS