Tag: Molecular Biology

How cross-kingdom communication led to a breakthrough phage therapyCredit: Denise Applewhite, Office of Communications, Princeton University Princeton molecular biologist Bonnie ...

Quantum chemical calculations on quantum computers

A quantum algorithm capable of performing quantum circuits parallelism and full configuration interactions calculations in any open shell molecules without ...

Faster, cheaper test can help predict risk of metastasis in prostate cancer patients

The Next-Generation Copy Number Alteration (NG-CNA) assay can analyze small amounts of material to estimate metastatic risk, reports The Journal ...

Tumor cells conquer territory from their neighbors using a newly discovered mechanism

Credit: Romain Levayer and Eduardo Moreno Despite decades of cancer research, the early phases of tumour progression that connect the ...

Septin proteins act as cellular police to identify, imprison and kill 'superbug' Shigella

Ground-breaking discovery reveals new clues to stop the spread of deadly infections Using state-of-the art technologies to image human cells ...

Control HIV by treating schistosomiasis, new study suggests

Credit: Wetzel and Shaefer, Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain, 2001 Of the 34 million people worldwide with HIV, and the 200 ...

HIV vaccine protects non-human primates from infection

LA JOLLA, CA - For more than 20 years, scientists at Scripps Research have chipped away at the challenges of ...

A role for microRNAs in social behavior

Researchers uncover how a microRNA cluster regulates synapse development and sociability Heidelberg, 14 December 2018 - The recent discovery of ...

Prostate cancer: New computer model enables researchers to predict course of disease

Credit: © Niclas Blessing/UKE How does a normal cell turn into a deadly cancer? Seeking an answer to this question, ...

Dopamine's yin-yang personality: It's an upper and a downer

Known as a reward that makes us seek pleasure, dopamine also reinforces avoidance of painCredit: Christine Liu graphic For decades, ...

Two compounds in coffee may team up to fight Parkinson's

Caffeine plus another compound in coffee beans' waxy coating may protect against brain degeneration, Rutgers study findsCredit: Steve Hockstein/Harvard Studio ...

Interplay between MicroRNAs and targeted genes in cellular homeostasis of adult zebrafish

The article by Dr. Gary Hardiman et al. is published in Current Genomics, Volume 19, Issue 7, 2018Credit: Dr. Gary ...

Cancer cells distinguished by artificial intelligence-based system

Osaka University researchers have developed a system using artificial intelligence that can automatically differentiate between different types of cancer cellCredit: ...

Undiplomatic immunity: Mutation causing arterial autoimmune disease revealed