Lending color to dead cells — A novel natural dye for screening cell viability
Scientists discover a natural food pigment that can distinguish between living and dead cells in cell culturesCredit: Tokyo University of ...
Tag: Molecular Biology
New nemertean species found in Panama represents the first of its genus from the Caribbean
Credit: Natsumi Hookabe As Natsumi Hookabe snorkeled around Panama's Bocas del Toro archipelago, during the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute's Training ...
Some severe COVID-19 cases linked to genetic mutations or antibodies that attack the body
Credit: NIAID People infected by the novel coronavirus can have symptoms that range from mild to deadly. Now, two new ...
Scientists trace severe COVID-19 to faulty genes and an autoimmune condition
Credit: The Rockefeller University More than 10 percent of young and healthy people who develop severe COVID-19 have misguided antibodies ...
Norwegian university supplying COVID-19 test kits to India, Denmark
Credit: Photo: Geir Mogen/NTNU A highly sensitive COVID-19 test, developed by researchers from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology ...
Born to be wild: Fungal highways let bacteria travel in exchange for thiamine
Researchers from the University of Tsukuba find a mutualistic growth mechanism between a filamentous fungus and a bacterium that allows ...
Genetic variation unlikely to influence COVID-19 morbidity and mortality
Credit: Ji-Won Lee A comprehensive search of genetic variation databases has revealed no significant differences across populations and ethnic groups ...
A new strategy of cell entry for some types of parvoviruses
Researchers at INRS uncover a new parvovirus strategy for reaching the cell nucleusCredit: INRS Researchers at the Institut national de ...
Berry good news — new compound from blueberries could treat inflammatory disorders
Scientists show how a polyphenolic compound derived from blueberry can treat inflammatory bowel diseaseCredit: Tokyo University of Science Various plants ...
Statins reduce COVID-19 severity, likely by removing cholesterol that virus uses to infect
Analyzing anonymized patient medical records, UC San Diego researchers discovered that cholesterol-lowering statins reduced risk of severe COVID-19 infection, while ...
Sanders-brown research discovers new pathway in TDP-43 related dementias
Credit: Photo by Pete Comparoni | UKphoto Recent work published by researchers at the University of Kentucky's Sanders-Brown Center on ...
Faulty transportation of messenger RNA is the culprit in ALS
The lack of protein TDP-43 in two neurodegenerative diseases is shown to prevent neuron growth via failed transport of RNA ...
Don’t sleep on the hypnotic potential of thalidomide
Researchers from the University of Tsukuba demonstrate that the hypnotic and teratogenic effects of thalidomide are separableCredit: University of Tsukuba ...
Let them eat rocks
$4.2 million grant to uncover mysteries of deep earth-dwelling microbesCredit: (Danny Newman and Mia Maltz/UCR) UC Riverside is leading an ...
Glycans in the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein play active role in infection
Credit: Adapted from ACS Central Science 2020, DOI: 10.1021/acscentsci.0c01056 As the COVID-19 pandemic rages on, researchers are working overtime to ...
Exercise hormone may modulate genes associated with replication of novel coronavirus
Brazilian researchers observed that in uninfected adipocytes, the hormone irisin altered the expression of genes that regulate ACE-2, which encodes ...
Mining molecular data with cryo-EM unveils hidden biological secrets
Credit: The Biodesign Institute at ASU The field of structural biology has made enormous strides, peering into the activities of ...
E. coli bacteria offer path to improving photosynthesis
Credit: Cornell University ITHACA, N.Y. - Cornell University scientists have engineered a key plant enzyme and introduced it in Escherichia ...
Technique permits convenient, precise optical imaging of individual proteins
Credit: Graphic by Shireen Dooling Often considered the workhorses of the body, proteins are among the most important biomolecules critical ...
CNIO identifies genetic factors associated to hand-foot syndrome in chemotherapy with capecitabine
Credit: CNIO Capecitabine is a chemotherapy drug used for breast and colorectal Cancer cancer. It can extend survival rate by ...
