Tag: Biochemistry

Filled with a noxious brew of copper, cadmium and arsenic, with a pH rivaling that of sulfuric acid, Montana's Berkeley ...

Radioactive carbon from nuclear bomb tests found in deep ocean trenches

Credit: US Department of Energy WASHINGTON--Radioactive carbon released into the atmosphere from 20th-century nuclear bomb tests has reached the deepest ...

DGIST acquired the first KELAF Certification as a Daegu-Gyeongbuk Educational Institution

Credit: ©DGIST The DGIST Laboratory Animal Resource Center held a signboard hanging ceremony to celebrate its designation as a Korea ...

Insilico to present at the Russian Pharmaceutical Forum

Credit: Insilico Wednesday, May 8, 2019 - Insilico Medicine, a biotech company developing the end-to-end drug discovery pipeline utilizing the ...

Mini-centrifuge for simpler study of blood cells opens new organ-on-chip possibilities

A simple innovation the size of a grain of sand means we can now analyse cells and tiny particles as ...

UTSA study shows cell’s cytoskeleton does more than hold up a cell, it transfers energy

Credit: Photo courtesy of UTSA (May 8, 2018) - Dysfunctions and malformations in the scaffold of a cell are thought ...

Researchers discover a trigger for directed cell motion

May 7, 2019

Self-organising system enables motile cells to form complex search pattern / Study published in "Nature Physics"Credit: Isabell Begemann, Milos Galic ...

Cell architects: ‘Smart cells’ improve production of pharmaceutical raw materials

May 7, 2019

Intelligent systems create metabolic pathways and engineer enzymes within microorganismsCredit: Kobe University Researchers in Japan have developed an integrated synthetic ...

New molecule maps cerebrovascular system

Peptide developed in Brazil is capable of binding to the blood-brain barrier that protects the central nervous system and could ...

Ayahuasca fixings found in 1,000-year-old bundle in the Andes

New evidence that the mind-blowing brew goes back millenniaCredit: Photos courtesy of Juan Albarracín-Jordán and José Capriles. Today's hipster creatives ...

Bacteria causing infections can be detected more rapidly

Professor Young-Tae Chang of POSTECH and his research team developed a fluorescent molecule for screening Gram-positive bacteriaCredit: POSTECH Two years ...

Staying healthy longer in space

The Rodent Research 12 (RR-12) investigation joins a series of studies aboard the International Space Station with the common goal ...

Sensor can detect spoiled milk before opening

Credit: WSU PULLMAN, Wash. -Expiration dates on milk could eventually become a thing of the past with new sensor technology ...

Shambhala helps understand the ‘decoding’ of RNA

A new tool created to simplify the comparison of RNA-Seq dataCredit: Courtesy of Nicolas Borisov Scientists at Sechenov University, together ...

Rice husks can remove microcystin toxins from water

UToledo research identifies another potential -- and renewable -- tool to fight harmful algal bloomsCredit: Dan Miller / The University ...

RIT professor develops microfluidic device to better detect Ebola virus

Work done by mechanical engineering professor can be used to pre-screen for the virus A faculty-researcher at Rochester Institute of ...

‘Gut-on-a-chip’ research aims to find personalized treatment for Crohn’s disease

Thanks to a new $1.8 million grant from The Helmsley Charitable Trust, UT Austin Engineer Hyun Jung Kim will apply ...

Researchers identify a protein that protects against non-alcoholic fatty liver disease

Credit: IRB Barcelona. Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease describes several liver dysfunctions of varying severity, characterised by the accumulation of fat ...

Hotspot in the genome may drive psychosis in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder

Findings provide a treatment target and a starting point for new biomarkersCredit: Courtesy of Van Andel Research Institute GRAND RAPIDS, ...

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