Can bacteria make stronger cars, airplanes and armor?
USC researchers harness the power of living organisms to make materials that are strong, tolerant and resilientCredit: Qiming Wang, USC ...
Tag: Biochemistry
Sewage study shows which countries like to party hard
(hint: the Dutch, Aussies, Kiwis and Americans)Credit: University of South Australia Despite deaths and hospitalisations linked to many new psychoactive ...
New research on mitochondrial function can play significant part in serious disease
Credit: Karolinska Institutet. Disorders of the cells' energy supply can cause a number of serious diseases, but also seem to ...
Sweet marine particles resist hungry bacteria
All algae sugars are entirely degraded by bacteria; well, not all; one sugar holds out against the invaders and could ...
Electron cryo-microscopy sheds light on how bioenergy makers are made in our body
Credit: Dan W. Nowakowski and Alexey Amunts Mitochondria are organelles that act as the powerhouses in our body. They use ...
Is odor the secret to bats’ sex appeal?
Credit: Mariana Muñoz-Romo and Paul B. Jones. When falling in love, humans often pay attention to looks. Many non-human animals ...
NOAA funds VIMS to study impact of ocean acidification on oysters
Team will assess vulnerability of aquaculture and restoration efforts in Chesapeake BayCredit: © Aileen Devlin/Virginia Sea Grant. The excess carbon ...
Skies of blue: Recycling carbon emissions to useful chemicals and reducing global warming
Researchers optimize a novel process for the efficient conversion of carbon emissions into useful chemicals like acetate using microbesCredit: Pusan ...
A novel gel electrophoresis technique for rapid biomarker diagnosis via mass spectrometry
Development of a rapid recovery method of target protein biomarkers using dissolvable polyacrylamide gel and its application to mass spectrometryCredit: ...
University of Minnesota, Hormel Institute and Mayo Clinic collaborate on new citizen science project
Credit: Minnesota Infrastructure Partnership, Mayo Clinic A University of Minnesota-Mayo Clinic partnership has joined with the Zooniverse citizen scientist platform ...
Improving stroke treatment with a modified therapeutic molecule
A research team from INRS has improved the protective effect of a molecule against ischemic strokeCredit: Christian Fleury (INRS) A ...
Cone snail venom shows potential for treating severe malaria
Study finds anti-adhesion drugs may hold the key to treating malaria, COVID-19, aids and other emerging diseasesCredit: Fred Pflueger, Ph.D. ...
Insight about tumor microenvironment could boost cancer immunotherapy
Credit: UPMC, created with BioRender.com PITTSBURGH, Feb. 15, 2021 - A paper published today in Nature shows how chemicals in ...
Commuters are inhaling unacceptably high levels of carcinogens
Twenty minutes or longer in the car also raises risk of birth defectsCredit: Stan Lim/UCR A new study finds that ...
Detecting multiple sepsis biomarkers from whole blood – made fast, accurate, and cheap
The Wyss Institute's eRapid electrochemical sensor technology now enables sensitive, specific and multiplexed detection of blood biomarkers at low costCredit: ...
Sweet coating for sour bones
Credit: Dr. Zhenzhen Wang, University of Macau Osteoporosis is a leading global health challenge. Besides its own adverse effects, it ...
New insight into protein structures that could treat Huntington’s disease
Credit: Sylvia Germes In Huntington's disease, a faulty protein aggregates in brain cells and eventually kills them. Such protein aggregates ...
Finding the best targets to improve crop yield by following CO2 journey inside the leaf
Credit: Natalia Bateman, CoETP A team of scientists have measured the relative importance of the different obstacles that carbon dioxide ...
Tuning the circadian clock, boosting rhythms may be key to future treatments and medicines
New article unravels the remarkable relationship between time-of-day and physiologyCredit: Imogen Reekie Irvine, CA - February 11, 2021 - Subconsciously, ...
Three UH engineers named to National Academy of Inventors
Hien Nguyen, Jeffrey Rimer and Gangbing song elected to senior member class of 2021Credit: University of Houston Three University of ...
