Tag: Biochemistry

March 28, 2019

In ancient oceans that resembled our own, oxygen loss triggered mass extinction

March 28, 2019

Credit: Stephen Bilenky TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- Roughly 430 million years ago, during the Earth's Silurian Period, global oceans were experiencing ...

Insilico Medicine to present at NVIDIA webinar

March 28, 2019

Insilico Medicine to present its latest research on a live NVIDIA webinarCredit: Insilico Medicine Thursday, March 28, 2019 - Insilico ...

Adhesive formed from bee spit and flower oil could form basis of new glues

Credit: Evan Atkinson Honey bees spend hours each day collecting pollen and packing it into tidy bundles attached to their ...

Engineers craft the basic building block for electrospun nanofibers

Credit: Peter Zhu/Michigan Tech Electrospinning uses electric fields to manipulate nanoscale and microscale fibers. The technique is well-developed but time-intensive ...

New Max Planck-Bristol Centre for Minimal Biology launched today

Centre will pioneer research in artificial cells, minimal genomes and protein design Building stripped-down versions of life using protocells, genome ...

Tumor-promoting enzymes USP25 and USP28: Substantial differences identified

Credit: Picture: Rudolf Virchow Center of experimental biomedicine / University of Wuerzburg The permanent interplay of protein production and degradation ...

Human protein produced in CHO-cells can save donor blood

Researchers from DTU Biosustain have successfully produced mammalian cell lines (CHO) that can produce 1,2 g/L recombinant Alpha-1-antitrypsin proteins with ...

Development of a technology to produce dorsal cortical neurons

A research team led by Dr. Yoichi Kosodo of KBRI, realizing human brain environment using tropical fishCredit: KBRI Korea Brain ...

BridgIT, a new tool for orphan and novel enzyme reactions

Credit: EPFL Effective protein engineering can give us control over the generated products inside a cell. However, for many of ...

Tracing the process of nitrous oxide formation in the ocean

First hydroxylamine measurements in the open ocean conducted by GEOMAR team Just like oxygen, nitrogen is of fundamental importance for ...

Future Science Group launches new journal Future Drug Discovery

Future Science Group is delighted to announce the launch of a new peer-reviewed open access journal, Future Drug Discovery Led ...

Seeds inherit memories from their mother

UNIGE researchers demonstrate that maternal and environmental control of seed dormancy is carried out through novel epigenetic mechanismsCredit: © UNIGE ...

Discovery of life-extension pathway in worms demonstrates new way to study aging

New method could enable faster study of strategies to combat age-related diseases LA JOLLA, CA - March 25, 2019 - ...

Will cyborgs be made from melanin? Pigment breakthrough enables biocompatible electronics

Scientists have achieved a billion-fold increase in the electrical conductivity of melanin, that could unleash its potential in safe, sustainable ...

A fascinating phase transition: From one liquid state to another

Credit: 2019 Hajime Tanaka, Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo Tokyo, Japan - A team at The University ...

Traffic control of cells

Credit: Graphic: Jo Richers Cells in the human body can display remarkable differences in their behaviour depending on the mechanical ...

A key player in the maturation of sexual organs

Credit: Helge Grosshans, FMI The let-7 gene is considered a fundamental regulator of developmental timing in animals - in organisms ...

Ascribe Bioscience receives SBIR award from NSF

New agbiotech startup company based on technology developed at the Boyce Thompson Institute is developing a novel seed treatment technology ...

ELSI scientist constructs artificial photosynthetic cells