Yale Scientists Show Actin in Action
Actin is the second most abundant protein on earth, and scientists have extensively detailed the chemistry that enables it to string together into filaments that…
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Scientists Develop Modular Approach to Engineering Immune Cells
Yale researchers have developed a new way to efficiently engineer immune cells, an advance which enhances the ability to fend off cancer and other diseases,…
Scientists Create DNA-Like Molecule to Search for Alien Life
In a research breakthrough funded by NASA, scientists have synthesized a molecular system that, like DNA, can store and transmit information. This unprecedented feat suggests…
Scientists Use Acoustic Waves to Monitor Stiffness of Living Cells
MIT engineers have devised a new, noninvasive way to measure the stiffness of living cells using acoustic waves. Their technique allows them to monitor single…
New Dinosaur Species Discovered in Mongolia, Gobiraptor Minutus
A new oviraptorosaur species from the Late Cretaceous was discovered in Mongolia, according to a study published in February 6, 2019 in the open-access journal…
Dengue Immunity Provided Protection Against Zika Virus
When the Zika virus arrived in the Americas in early 2015, it struck hard, infecting 73% of people in one Brazilian community at the epicenter…
Scientists Reveal How a Fatty Diet Helped Develop Bigger Brains
Long before human ancestors began hunting large mammals for meat, a fatty diet provided them with the nutrition to develop bigger brains, posits a new…
New Approach Allows Deeper Understanding of Biological Signaling Systems
The second law of thermodynamics states that all closed systems tend towards disorder over time and maintain order through the expenditure of energy. In most…
Scientists Reveal How An Immune System Protein Helps Suppress HIV
Much of the research on HIV has focused on preventing infection but little is understood about how the body keeps the virus in check post-infection….
Researchers Discover Human-Specific Gene for Building a Bigger Brain
The human brain owes its characteristic wrinkled appearance to its outer layer, the cerebral cortex. During human evolution, the neocortex, the evolutionarily youngest part of…
Yale Scientists Open Up New World for Biologics
The vast majority of top-selling drugs are biologics — also known as proteins. Proteins are used today to treat many debilitating diseases, including arthritis, Crohn’s…
Scientists Untangle the Science of How Hair Follicles Grow
An outstanding question in dermatology that researchers have studied for decades is: How do hair follicles emerge from a sea of seemingly uniform skin cells…
Sugar Targets Microbe Linked to Lean and Healthy People
Sugar can silence a key protein required for colonization by a gut bacterium associated with lean and healthy individuals, according to a new Yale study…
Neuroscientists Devise New Technique To Preserve Biological Tissue
MIT chemical engineers and neuroscientists have devised a new way to preserve biological tissue, allowing them to visualize proteins, DNA, and other molecules within cells,…
Paleontologists Discover A New Giant Dinosaur, The Volgatitan
Paleontologists from Russia have described a new dinosaur, the Volgatitan. Seven of its vertebrae, which had remained in the ground for about 130 million years,…
Scientists Discover Several Protein-Coding Genes That Were Misidentified
The human genome contains regions that “code” for proteins, which means they have instructions to make protein molecules with specific functions in the body. But…
Satellite Observations Provide Scientists With Unique Insights on Adélie Penguin
Using satellite observations of Antarctica to search for penguin guano (poo) may not sound like the most exciting research, but it’s providing scientists with unique…
Study Shows Connection Between Brain Size and Cognitive Performance
Using a larger dataset than all previous studies on the subject combined, researchers found a small but significant connection between brain size and cognitive performance….