A New Approach to Treating Heart Diseases
Researchers discover a new way to treat cardiovascular diseases. Vascular and cardiovascular illnesses are greatly influenced by a particular protein found in blood vessel cells….
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Convergent Evolution: Why COVID-19 Antibody Treatments Aren’t As Effective for New Variants
The new peer-reviewed paper can help inform the development of new vaccines and therapeutics. When SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19 disease, first appeared, it…
“Reverse Engineering” Brain Tissue Reveals Sugar-Studded Protein Linked to Alzheimer’s Disease
In a bit of “reverse engineering” research using brain tissues from five people who died with Alzheimer’s disease, Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers say they have…
How Three Mutations Work Together To Spur New COVID-19 Variants
Like storm waves battering a ship, new versions of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which causes COVID-19, have buffeted the world one after another. Recently, scientists keeping…
Scientists May Have Discovered the Mechanism Behind Mysterious COVID-19 Symptoms
In patients with serious and long-term COVID-19, disrupted blood coagulation has often been observed. Now, researchers at Linköping University (LiU), Sweden, have discovered that the…
Newly Discovered Enzyme May Enable the Utilization of Agroindustrial Waste
Brazilian researchers discovered, characterized, and validated the functions of two novel enzyme families with biotechnological potential. One method of reducing reliance on oil and other…
Learning Chemical Networks Give Life a Chiral Twist – Symmetry Breaking To Optimize Energy Harvesting
Chirality preference in living matter may arise spontaneously to optimize energy harvesting. When one holds a right hand in front of a mirror, the reflected…
Photosynthesis: How a Cyanobacterium Makes Far-Red Light Mean “Go”
Researchers identify the locations of structural changes in photosystems I and II that allow growth in far-red light. A team of researchers led by Penn…
New and Improved Cherry Flavor Thanks to the Petunia Flower
That cherry flavor you enjoy in candy and soda is likely a combination of aromatic and flavor compounds discovered through the study of plants in…
Leap Forward in Genetic Sequencing Will Lead to Improved Personalized Medicine and Understanding of Evolution
In a paper published on March 11, 2022, in Sciences Advances, researchers in the Department of Chemistry and the Department of Physics & Astronomy at…
AI-Designed Protein Can Awaken Silenced Genes, One by One
Technique allows researchers to toggle on individual genes that regulate cell growth, development, and function. By combining CRISPR technology with a protein designed with artificial…
New Enzyme Has Remarkable Capacity To Help Break Down Chemical Building Block of PET Plastic
Scientists who helped to pioneer the use of enzymes to eat plastic have taken an important next step in developing nature-based solutions to the global…
Scientists Discover How Molecule From Deep-Sea Microbe Becomes Potent Anticancer Weapon
Deep-sea microbe provides rich source of medically potent drugs. Years of toil in the laboratory have revealed how a marine bacterium makes a potent anti-cancer…
New Insight Into Possible Origins of Life: For the First Time Researchers Create an RNA Molecule That Replicates
Experiment sheds light on the molecular evolution of RNA. Researchers at the University of Tokyo have for the first time been able to create an…
Bacterial Enzyme Makes New Type of Biocompatible, Biodegradable Polymer
Strings of sugars called polysaccharides are the most abundant biopolymers on Earth. Because of their versatile and environmentally friendly properties, these molecules could eventually replace…
Great Oxygenation Event: MIT Scientists’ New Hypothesis for One of the Grand Mysteries of Science
Microbes and Minerals May Have Set Off Earth’s Oxygenation Scientists propose a new mechanism by which oxygen may have first built up in the atmosphere….
After More Than 20 Years, Scientists Have Finally Solved the Full-Length Structure of a Janus Kinase
The breakthrough came on molecular biologist Christopher Garcia’s birthday. For more than 20 years, his team and others around the world had been chasing an…
New Imaging Technique Could Lead to Better Treatment of Cancers and Viral Infections
UH Researchers Receive $1.2 Million Grant to Peer into Ribosomes Two University of Houston researchers are developing a type of spectroscopy to help understand how…
