Tag: Molecular Biology

Eavesdropping on 'conversations' between gut stem cells and gut bacteriaCredit: Image is courtesy of Leslie Koyama and Lucy O'Brien. Baltimore, ...

Credit: Image: University of Basel, Biozentrum A research team has uncovered a genetic signature that enables cells to adapt their ...

Credit: Henry Driver (commissioned by Essex County Council). Researchers have discovered how a notorious pathogen may have hijacked one of ...

A new compound with the potential to turn genes on and off could lead to new cancer and hereditary disease ...

Gene therapy to treat Huntington's diseaseCredit: Gong Chen and Zheng Wu Huntington's disease (HD) is a rare disease characterized by ...

Credit: Copyright ©2012-2014 Suwa Tourism Association Proteins denature, or "cook" in heat, irreversibly changing their structure, like how an egg ...

Communities of bacteria known as biofilms are notorious for forming on implanted medical devices and tissues in the body, where ...

Credit: The Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University A typo appearing in the draft of a novel is no great ...

This strategy can open new avenues to improve the effectiveness of therapies in thousands of patients who are currently being ...

Credit: Saarland University/Thorsten Mohr Red blood cells (erythrocytes) are the pack animals of the human circulatory system. They transport oxygen ...

Researchers at Osaka University find that a tadpole-like tunicate with nonconventional left-right patterning lacks the Nodal gene found in other ...

Credit: Joël Bloch / ETH Zurich Many of the membrane proteins in eukaryotic cells are decorated with complex sugar trees ...

As much as 70% of the molecules in a mouse are determined by the microbes that live within the animalCredit: ...

Exotic molecule linked to ozone also at work in chronic diseases and cancers, and even the decomposition of foodCredit: Marilyn ...

C. elegans study from the lab of Matthew Gill, PhD, presents new direction for research on type 2 diabetes, insulin ...

A new ion channel identified in bacteria fills a missing link in the evolutionary history of ion channels in mammalsCredit: ...

Credit: Álvarez-Quilón et al. 2020, Nature Communications Researchers from the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO), Madrid, and the Andalusian ...

A research team has been able to describe the overall structure of the antibody type IgE, which is the key ...

Credit: University of Texas at Dallas The Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT) has awarded new grants totaling ...

A mere four glial cells in roundworm perk up stress response in periphery, doubling lifespanCredit: Ashley Frakes, UC Berkeley While ...