NSF CAREER award to study microstructures of starfish skeletons
Credit: Virginia Tech Ling Li, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering in the College of Engineering, has received a National ...
Tag: Biochemistry
FSU biologists shed light on how cells move resources
Credit: Courtesy of Scott Stagg Florida State University researchers have new insight into the tiny packages that cells use to ...
Highly stable amyloid protein aggregates may help plant seeds last longer
Credit: Dr. Pavel Zykin Highly stable polymeric "amyloid" proteins, best known for their role in Alzheimer's disease, have been mostly ...
Neandertals may have had a lower threshold for pain
People who inherited a special ion channel from Neandertals experience more painCredit: © Science Photo Library / Daynes, Elisabeth As ...
Shrinking (ultra)violet
NIST researchers describe unique system for testing how well narrow wavebands of UV light kill germsCredit: T. Larason/NIST While awaiting ...
Junk DNA might be really, really useful for biocomputing
Flipon-based ComputersCredit: Alan Herbert Dr. Herbert asks what if our genome was far smarter than everyone previously believed? What if ...
How the regulator is regulated — Insight into immune-related protein holds therapeutic value
Scientists unravel how the immune checkpoint protein PD-L2 is regulated, which has potential implications in immune therapyCredit: Tokyo University of ...
Everything you ever wanted to know about leech sex but were afraid to ask
Credit: Karen Kidd Today, we pull the veil back on the secret sex lives of leeches and how researchers at ...
Formation of quadruple helix DNA tracked in live human cells for the first time
Credit: Ella Maru Studio The formation of four-stranded DNA has been tracked in living human cells, allowing scientists to see ...
How smart, ultrathin nanosheets go fishing for proteins
Faster and simpler production of high-resolution, three-dimensional electron microscopy images of biomoleculesCredit: Andrey Turchanin/Zian Tang FRANKFURT/JENA. An interdisciplinary team from ...
A new species of darkling beetle larvae that degrade plastic
Credit: Hyung Joon Cha (POSTECH) There floats an enormous plastic garbage island in the North Pacific that is seven times ...
Parasitic worm venom evades human immune system
UC Riverside scientist wins $1.8M to unravel mystery of nematode infectionsCredit: (Adler Dillman/UCR) It's likely that billions of people are ...
New nano drug candidate kills aggressive breast cancer cells
The discovery will help clinicians target breast cancer cells directly, while avoiding the adverse, toxic side effects of chemotherapyCredit: University ...
New technology promises to revolutionize nanomedicine
Credit: Image courtesy of Maxim Nikitin Researchers from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and their colleagues from Shemyakin-Ovchinnikov ...
A chemical tailor-made suit for Alzheimer’s drugs
Research team from Göttingen and Halle develops new inhibitors for enzymesCredit: Lisa-Marie Funk With over 1.2 million people affected in ...
Pioneering method reveals dynamic structure in HIV
Technique can track molecules in real time, at room temperatureCredit: Dave Meikle/Saffarian Lab Viruses are scary. They invade our cells ...
Gel that breaks down, puts itself back together could improve delivery of oral drugs
In research published in Soft Matter, Lehigh University rheologists mimic pH environment of GI tract to shed light on pharmaceutical ...
Beautyberry leaf extract restores drug’s power to fight ‘superbug’
A compound from a common shrub boosts an antibiotic's activity against antibiotic-resistant staph bacteriaCredit: Tharanga Samarakoon Scientists discovered a compound ...
Avoiding food contamination with a durable coating for hard surfaces
Coating developed by collaborative team of University of Missouri engineers and food scientistsCredit: University of Missouri In the future, a ...
Lesion of doom — how a parasitic bacterium induces blood vessel formation to cause lesions
Scientists gain insights into how pathogenic bacteria of the genus Bartonella give rise to lesions in the human body, opening ...
