Through a one-of-a-kind experiment at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, nuclear physicists have precisely measured the weak interaction between protons and neutrons. The result quantifies the weak ...
General Physics
Sep 24, 2020
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A team of scientists at the Nagoya University Institute of Transformative Bio-Molecules (WPI-ITbM) have developed a method for visualizing microtubule dynamics and cell membrane protein endocytosis in living plant cells, ...
Plants & Animals
Aug 21, 2020
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At the start of a COVID-19 infection, the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 docks onto human cells using the spike-like proteins on its surface. The spike protein is at the centre of vaccine development because it triggers an immune ...
Cell & Microbiology
Aug 18, 2020
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A Princeton team has developed a class of light-switchable, highly adaptable molecular tools with new capabilities to control cellular activities. The antibody-like proteins, called OptoBinders, allow researchers to rapidly ...
Cell & Microbiology
Aug 13, 2020
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The Innovation Center of NanoMedicine in Japan announced that a new strategy to specifically target to the brain was discovered in collaboration with the Department of Bioengineering, Graduate School of Engineering, University ...
Bio & Medicine
Jul 27, 2020
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Living cells inside the body could be placed under surveillance—their location and migration noninvasively tracked in real time over many days—using a new method developed by researchers at KAUST.
Bio & Medicine
May 20, 2020
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Skoltech researchers have identified a set of proteins that are important in the process of apoptosis, or programmed cell death. These newly identified proteins can become targets in the development of drugs against cancer ...
Cell & Microbiology
Apr 30, 2020
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When attacked by pathogenic microbes, plants protect themselves by deploying numerous secondary metabolites inhibitory to the pathogen. These metabolites are thought to nonspecifically inhibit both pathogenic and beneficial ...
Biotechnology
Apr 9, 2020
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CeMM Researchers have studied how solute carriers (SLCs), a large family of membrane transport proteins, influence the activity and potency of cytotoxic drugs. Their study in Nature Chemical Biology uncovers the dependency ...
Biochemistry
Mar 10, 2020
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Mitochondria cannot autonomously cope with stress and must instead call on the cell for help. Molecular geneticists at LMU have identified the long-sought signaling pathway which enables the organelles to do so.
Cell & Microbiology
Mar 5, 2020
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