Tag: Biochemistry

Credit: Courtesy of Dr. Yasmine Belkaid, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (Feb. 3, 2021) -- ...

Soil bacteria hormone discovery provides fertile ground for new antibiotics

Mechanism for control of antibiotic production in soil bacteria is visualised for the first time by scientists at University of ...

Improving photosynthesis: our best bet to create a food secure world

Credit: Produced by the ARC Centre of Excellence for Translational Photosynthesis and the Australian Academy of Science Australian agriculture plays ...

Novel 3D printed stents deliver breakthrough treatment for oesophageal cancer

Credit: UniSA World-first 3D printed oesophageal stents developed by the University of South Australia could revolutionise the delivery of chemotherapy ...

Retrained generic antibodies can recognize SARS-CoV-2

Credit: UIC The SARS-CoV-2, the new coronavirus behind the current pandemic, infects humans by binding its surface-exposed spike proteins to ...

Standard water treatment technique removes and inactivates an enveloped virus

Credit: Adapted from Environmental Science & Technology 2021, DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.0c07697 Enveloped viruses have been detected in raw sewage and sludge, ...

Study finds childhood diet has lifelong impact

Effects of unhealthy food followed young mice into adulthoodCredit: UCR Eating too much fat and sugar as a child can ...

Some food contamination starts in the soil

Credit: Matt Limmer When most people hear "food contamination," they think of bacteria present on unwashed fruits or vegetables, or ...

UTEP fights superbugs with $1.2 Million NIH grant to produce antibiotics

Credit: J.R. Hernandez / UTEP Communications EL PASO, Texas - Chu-Young Kim, Ph.D., associate professor of chemistry and biochemistry at ...

Researchers develop 10-minute COVID-19 diagnostic test that wage workers can afford

Technology based on nanoparticles identifies IgG antibodies and costs only about a fifth of similar devices now on the market. ...

Toward safer steroids: Scientists devise method for improving safety of drug used to treat COVID-19, autoimmune disorders and more

Credit: Scripps Research JUPITER, FL - A collaboration led by Scripps Research has developed a way to separate the beneficial ...

Generation of conjunctivae in a dish

Researchers from Osaka University generate functional conjunctival tissue in a dishCredit: Osaka University Osaka, Japan - Conjunctival tissue is perhaps ...

What evolution reveals about the function of bitter receptors

From coelacanths to humansCredit: Graphic by Sabine Bijewitz from @LeibnizLSB, Template: Drawing by former FishBase artist Robbie Cada. To evaluate ...

National company acquires exclusive rights to Purdue rare-earth element innovations

American Resources Corp. acquires environmentally safer method developed at Purdue to advance clean energy technologies that require rare-earth elements, a ...

NTU Singapore team develops portable device that creates 3D images of skin in 10 minutes

Credit: NTU Singapore A team from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) has developed a portable device that produces high-resolution ...

Neutrons probe molecular behavior of proposed COVID-19 drug candidates

Credit: ORNL/Jill Hemman As the scientific community continues researching the novel coronavirus, experts are developing new drugs and repurposing existing ...

Why antibiotic-resistant cells persist

University of Houston biomolecular engineer receives NSF CAREER award to explore cells that defy efforts to kill themCredit: University of ...

Origami with DNA

A team at TU Wien was able to answer important questions about the immune system - with a trick reminiscent ...

Easily assembled gold nanoparticle scaffolding serves as molecular probe

Credit: FIGURE MODIFIED FROM Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry, January 2021, DOI: 10.1039/D0OB01688H The development of pharmaceutical treatments is difficult -- ...

Supersaturation: The barrier between protein folding and misfolding