Neurodegenerative diseases may be caused by transportation failures inside neurons
Credit: Strang Laboratory of Apoptosis and Cancer Biology at The Rockefeller University All neurodegenerative diseases have a common thread: the ...
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Diabetes drug has unexpected, broad implications for healthy aging
Scientists discover multiple mechanisms at work in widely-used diabetes drug metforminCredit: Salk Institute LA JOLLA--(December 3, 2019) Metformin is the ...
Dramatic transition in Streptomyces life cycle explained in new discovery
Credit: John Innes Centre Streptomyces bacteria are our primary source of antibiotics, which are produced in the transition from vegetative ...
Raising plants to withstand climate change
Proof of concept for changing mitochondrial respirationCredit: Flinders University Success with improving a model plant's response to harsh conditions is ...
Climate change and human activities threatens picky penguins
Credit: Credit: Jim Wilson © Eating a krill-only diet has made one variety of Antarctic penguin especially susceptible to the ...
Oat pathogen defence discovery marks an important milestone
Credit: Andrew Davis Researchers have identified the critical last pieces of a genetic defence system that gives oats resistance to ...
Scientists reveal the structure of viral rhodopsins
Credit: Dmitry Bratanov et al./Nature Communications The structure of an Organic Lake Phycodnavirus rhodopsin II (OLPVRII), which is a unique ...
EMBL and Leica sign open innovation collaboration agreement
Credit: Massimo del Prete/EMBL EMBL often cooperates with industry partners, and has cooperated successfully with Leica for many years. Based ...
Protein defect leaves sperm chasing their tails
A team led by researchers from Osaka University identify a protein required for electrical signal sensing, which, when defective, causes ...
Researchers at IRB Barcelona study how altered protein degradation contributes to the development of tumors
Credit: Francisco Martínez, IRB Barcelona. To understand the molecular bases of cancer, it is imperative to determine the genetic alterations ...
Decades old debate settled: Golgi key to maintenance of molecule-sorting station in cells
New mechanism to explain how the cell organelle that sorts and distributes substances entering a cell is formed and maintainedCredit: ...
Designing and repurposing cell receptors
Credit: Daniel Keri, EPFL Called the "second secret of life", allostery is one of the most fundamental processes of biology ...
Fine-tuning gene expression during stress recovery
Credit: Hokkaido University Scientists have discovered non-coding RNA has a novel role to fine-tune gene expressions during stress recovery, getting ...
Stem cell therapy helps broken hearts heal in unexpected way
Study in Nature sheds new light on heart treatment controversyCredit: Cincinnati Children's CINCINNATI -- Stem cell therapy helps hearts recover ...
New high-resolution images show how malaria parasites evade frontline drugs
Credit: Columbia University Irving Medical Center SUMMARY: Images show how changes in a specific protein of the malaria parasite are ...
Scientists now know what DNA’s chaperone looks like
Credit: Liu et al. 2019 It's long been known that the proteins that package DNA, like students at a high ...
Dance of the RNases: Coordinating the removal of RNA-DNA hybrids
Research teams have deciphered how two enzymes are coordinated to remove RNA-DNA hybrid structures from chromosomesCredit: ill./©: IMB Two research ...
Silencing retroviruses to awaken cell potential
Researchers led by a team from the University of Tsukuba identify a protein that suppresses retroviruses in the human genome, ...
Once hidden cellular structures emerge in fight against viruses
A University of Arizona researcher describes how a cellular structure that was once lost to science combats attacks waged in ...
December’s SLAS Discovery special issue now available
'Membrane Proteins: New Approaches to Probes, Technologies and Drug Design' now accessible through December 20Credit: David James Group Oak Brook, ...
