Advances in biomimicry – creating biological responses within non-biological substances – will enable synthetic materials to behave in ways that were typically only found in Nature. Light provides an especially effective ...
Materials Science
Feb 25, 2020
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By figuring out how a common virus hides from the immune system, scientists have identified a potential vaccine to prevent sometimes deadly respiratory infections in humans.
Cell & Microbiology
Feb 3, 2020
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Within the framework of electrodermography studies applied to cognitive archaeology, the Paleoneurology team of the Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH), led by Emiliano Bruner, has published ...
Other
Dec 19, 2019
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Reproducibility is a major challenge in experimental biology, and with the increasing complexity of data generated by genomic-scale techniques this concern is immensely amplified. RNA-seq, one of the most widely used methods ...
Biotechnology
Nov 12, 2019
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When Kīlauea Volcano erupted in 2018, it injected millions of cubic feet of molten lava into the nutrient-poor waters off the Big Island of Hawai'i. The lava-impacted seawater contained high concentrations of nutrients that ...
Earth Sciences
Sep 5, 2019
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The interior of a human cell consists, in part, of a complex soup of millions of molecules.
Biochemistry
Aug 21, 2019
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Two proteins that act as a 'clutch' in cells to put them in gear and drive our immune response have been identified for the first time.
Cell & Microbiology
Jul 11, 2019
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When it comes to the effectiveness of nanotherapeutic vaccines, shape matters.
Biochemistry
May 6, 2019
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263
Scientists from the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) have succeeded in reconstructing biomolecules in their mirror-image form. The researchers' goal is to create a mirror-image artificial protein synthesis system. Their ...
Biochemistry
Mar 14, 2019
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Lonesome George's species may have died with him in 2012, but he and other giant tortoises of the Galapagos are still providing genetic clues to individual longevity through a new study by researchers at Yale University, ...
Ecology
Dec 3, 2018
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