Tag: Biochemistry

March 30, 2021

Credit: Isaac Santos Water quality management in the ocean often targets visible pollution sources such as sewage, rivers or ships. ...

‘Bottom-up’ approach needed to study freshwater blooms

March 30, 2021

A national research team urges more complete study of harmful cyanobacteriaCredit: Midge Eliassen HANOVER, N.H. - March 30, 2021 - ...

Decoding smell

Neural code determines instinctual responses to attractive or aversive odorsCredit: Qiang Qiu, PhD, Stowers Institute for Medical Research KANSAS CITY, ...

First detailed look at crucial enzyme advances cancer research

Credit: The Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University In order to develop more effective drugs against a range of cancers, ...

Narwal tusks reveal mercury exposure related to climate change

Like rings in a tree trunk, a narwal's tusk provides a window into changing conditions in the ArcticCredit: Paul Nicklen ...

John D. Carpten elected fellow of AACR Academy

American Association for Cancer Research honors distinguished USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center scientistCredit: Keck School of Medicine of USC John ...

Optogenetics: Light regulates an enzyme

Credit: (Picture: Shiqiang Gao / University of Wuerzburg) The unicellular green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii has already given research a massive ...

New drug to regenerate lost teeth

Antibody for USAG-1 shown to stimulate tooth growthCredit: Kyoto University/Katsu Takahashi Japan -- The tooth fairy is a welcome guest ...

The Protein Society announces its 2021 award recipients

Credit: The Protein Society The Protein Society, the premier international society dedicated to supporting protein research, announces the winners of ...

Caltech professor Ibrahim Cissé applies physics to decode and understand RNA transcription

Nigerien-born physicist is the recipient of a 2021 Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Biomedical ScienceCredit: Image courtesy of the ...

Scientists identify virus-cell interaction that may explain COVID-19’s high infection rate

Lehigh researchers quantify the specific interaction between the spike protein of SARS-CoV-2 -- the virus that causes COVID-19 -- with ...

University of Ottawa receives $9 million from CIHR to track COVID-19 variants of concern

Project spearheaded by Faculty of Medicine researcher to create a Canadian network for better researching and responding to the global ...

Funding research toward treating the root cause of neurodegenerative disease

Professor and GlycoNet Investigator Simonetta Sipione's research awarded major grant from the Canadian Institutes of Health ResearchCredit: GlycoNet Dr. Simonetta ...

3D-printed artificial lung model

Credit: POSTECH The warmer temperature and blooming flowers signal the arrival of spring. However, worries about respiratory diseases are also ...

Scent of a species

A reversal in sensory processing accompanies ongoing ecological divergence and speciation in Rhagoletis pomonellaCredit: Shoot for Science: Deepak Kakara, Dinesh ...

Eat me: The cell signal of death

An 'eat-me' signal displayed on cell surfaces requires activation of a lipid-scrambling protein by a nuclear protein fragmentCredit: Mindy Takamiya/Kyoto ...

When synthetic evolution rhymes with natural diversity

Credit: Parys/GMI/UNC-Chapel Hill Researchers at GMI - Gregor Mendel Institute of Molecular Plant Biology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, ...

What is killing bald eagles in the U.S.?

Credit: Susan Wilde Bald eagles, as well as other wildlife, have been succumbing to a mysterious neurodegenerative disease in the ...

Protein fingerprinting in minutes

New technology enables ultrafast identification of COVID-19 biomarkersCredit: Photo: Arne Sattler/Charité Researchers from Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin and the Francis ...

SMART develops rapid deterministic lateral displacement assay to assess immune response