New Design Makes Previously Inaccessible Proteins Vulnerable to Drugs
A team of researchers at Yale University has identified a molecular signal that allows potentially therapeutic proteins to hitch a ride into cells using vesicles,…
A team of researchers at Yale University has identified a molecular signal that allows potentially therapeutic proteins to hitch a ride into cells using vesicles,…
Using a technique based on electromagnetically induced transparency, MIT and Harvard scientists have achieved the ability to convert a laser beam into a stream of…
Using ESO’s Very Large Telescope to study a sample of 71 O-type single stars and stars in pairs in six nearby young star clusters in…
A new study from scientists at Columbia University Medical Center pinpoints the genetic cause of glioblastoma and found that drugs that target the protein produced…
Using a pump-probe technique, scientists at SLAC’s Linac Coherent Light Source used terahertz frequencies of light to change the magnetic state of a sample and…
A new study from a team of international scientists found that deforestation is advancing rapidly in tropical nations and most reserves are losing some or…
With a 28-meter mirror and a mass of almost 600 tons, the H.E.S.S. II telescope is up and running, detecting its very first images of…
In a published study titled “A transitional snake from the Late Cretaceous of North America,” Yale researchers argue that snakes descend from terrestrial ancestors and…
A newly published study from scientists at MIT describes their discovery of a bacterial gene that may explain the sudden influx of methane-eating bacteria at…
Scientists have discovered the first exoplanetary system with regularly aligned orbits similar to those in our solar system. Located at the center of this system…
With the hope of bringing explorers to nearby asteroids, Mars, and its moons, and to destinations even farther across our solar system, NASA’s Space Launch…
Scientists at the Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University are using DNA nanotechnology to make an entirely new class of synthetic vaccines that could be…
By analyzing the amino acids in meteorites, NASA and University scientists have developed one possible explanation for why all known life uses only left-handed versions…
In a newly published study, astrophysicists detail how they modeled the trajectories of refractory particles in the unstable disk of gas and dust that formed…
A study by scientists at Cornell’s Center for Behavioral Economics in Child Nutrition Programs suggests that the presence of certain foods in school cafeterias may…
As research on greenhouse gases and global warming continues, this brief video from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center explains how instruments like CERES and MODIS…
Taking a “greener” approach to methane production, scientists from Stanford and Pennsylvania State are raising colonies of microorganisms, called methanogens, which have the ability to…
Using a modified version of Cytochrome P450 17A1, scientists from the University of Kansas have solved the structure of CYP17A1 for the first time, which…