NTU Singapore study investigates link between COVID-19 and risk of blood clot formation
Credit: NTU People who have recovered from COVID-19, especially those with pre-existing cardiovascular conditions, may be at risk of developing ...
Tag: Biochemistry
When FRETing over cancer biomarkers won’t work, focus on blinking instead
Researchers from Osaka University used a photostabilizer to access otherwise hidden chemical details of DNA conformational dynamics, and to detect ...
Bioactive implant coatings resistant to most bacterial strains are obtained in Russia
Credit: Sergey Gnuskov/ NUST MISIS Young scientists from NUST MISIS have presented multilayer antibacterial coatings with a prolonged effect and ...
Technique allows mapping of epigenetic information in single cells at scale
Credit: Mandy Meijer Histones are tiny proteins that bind to DNA and hold information that can help turn on or ...
Poop core records 4,300 years of bat diet and environment
An inaccessible cave preserved clues to Jamaica's climate past in the sedimentary layers of bat guanoCredit: Sherri and Brock Fenton ...
Lighting the way to folding next-level origami
Recent findings by Slovenian and German scientists artfully explore potential to transform proteins into custom-made structuresCredit: Credit: Fabio Lapenta / ...
Blood vessel formation in damaged tissues with mussel adhesive protein
Credit: POSTECH Blood vessels deliver nutrients and oxygen to each organ in our body. They are difficult to completely restore ...
Life on Venus? First we need to know more about molecules in the atmosphere
Credit: UNSW Sydney The search for life on other planets has received a major boost after scientists revealed the spectral ...
Ben-Gurion University researchers developing probiotic yogurt-based drugs
Credit: Credit: Dani Machlis BEER-SHEVA, Israel...April 13, 2021 - Researchers at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) have for the ...
An on-off switch for gene editing
New, reversible CRISPR method can control gene expression while leaving underlying DNA sequence unchangedCredit: Jennifer Cook-Chrysos/Whitehead Institute Over the past ...
Brain organoids uncover various mechanisms of virus-induced microcephaly
Credit: Copyright: Krenn/CellStemCell/IMBA Researchers at IMBA - Institute of Molecular Biotechnology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences - demonstrate that ...
To nodulate or not? Uncovering how nitrate regulates gene expression in legumes
Researchers from the University of Tsukuba find that nitrate-induced control of root nodule formation results from varying DNA-binding properties of ...
New method offers insights into tension-sensitivity of potassium channels
Experiments with a novel time-lapse system show that potassium channel exhibit hysteresis in their responses to membrane tensionCredit: Masayuki Iwamoto ...
Bioengineer wins NIH grant to attack cystic fibrosis
Xue Sherry Gao developing base editors to fix multitude of single mutations that cause diseaseCredit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University HOUSTON - ...
Mountain growth influences greenhouse effect
Weathering of rocks can bind or release carbon dioxide -- in active mountain ranges, carbon-dioxide release strongly dominatesCredit: Kristen Cook ...
Corals carefully organize proteins to form rock-hard skeletons
Scientists' findings suggest corals will withstand climate changeCredit: Kevin Wyman/Rutgers University Charles Darwin, the British naturalist who championed the theory ...
UofL biologists create better method to culture cells for testing drug toxicity
Research featured on cover of American Journal of Physiology-Cell PhysiologyCredit: American Journal of Physiology-Cell Physiology LOUISVILLE, Ky. - When a ...
New biosensor makes control hormone auxin visible in cells
Scientists at the University of Bayreuth and the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology in Tübingen have developed a novel ...
Genome sequencing reveals a new species of bumblebee
Credit: Jennifer Geib While studying genetic diversity in bumblebees in the Rocky Mountains, USA, researchers from Uppsala University discovered a ...
A new mouse model gave surprising findings about Folling Disease
Credit: Ellen Johanne Jarli In Norway, all newborn children are tested for 25 rare genetic diseases through the Newborn Screening ...
