Most Widely Used Cooking Oil Causes Genetic Changes in the Brain
America’s most widely consumed oil, soybean oil, linked to metabolic and neurological changes in mice. New University of California Riverside research shows soybean oil not…
Biochemistry News
Innovative Process Rapidly Turns Plant Waste Into Biofuels
Rutgers-led team develops innovative process to rapidly dissolve plant fibers to make it easier to turn plant waste into biofuels. Researchers have developed a new…
Scientists Copy Nature’s Tricks to Sustainably Make Chemicals and Fuel
Researchers have copied the way organisms produce toxic chemicals without harming themselves, paving the way for greener chemical and fuel production. The new technique, pioneered…
Experts Reveal ‘Beating Heart’ of Photosynthesis – Can Help Us Meet Urgent Food Security Needs
Scientists reveal ‘beating heart’ of photosynthesis that is responsible for significantly influencing plant growth. Study shows how an electrical reaction in protein complex cytochrome b6f…
Breakthrough in Understanding Evolution – Mitochondrial Division Conserved Across Species
New study shows exactly how the manner in which mitochondria divide has remained the same since evolution began. Cellular origin is well explained by the…
Strange New Organelle That Helps Prevent Cancer Discovered in Our Cells
Could lead to better treatments, spare patients ones that won’t work. Scientists at the University of Virginia School of Medicine have discovered a strange new…
The World’s Smallest Universal Joints in Unprecedented Resolution
Researchers at Osaka University used electron cryomicroscopy to solve the structure of an essential component of the bacterial flagellum with unprecedented resolution, with important implications…
Creating Better Drugs With This ‘Lemon’ for Machine Learning
One of the challenges in using machine learning for drug development is to create a process for the computer to extract needed information from a…
New Biodegradable Adhesive Provides Environmentally Friendly Alternative
Sustainable Adhesives of the Future Won’t Stick Around Plastics of the future should, ideally for the health of the planet and our own bodies, be…
New Photonic pH Sensor Tracks Lab-Grown Tissue – Helps Advance Toward Growing Limbs and Organs
Tracking lab-grown tissue with light: New proof-of-concept photonic pH sensor could advance studies of tissue regeneration. Someday, doctors would like to grow limbs and other…
How Enzymes Produced by White Rot Fungi Reign Supreme in Worldwide Carbon Recycling
Richard Wolfenden, Ph.D., professor of biochemistry and biophysics, details how white rot fungi produce enzymes that turn out to be key players in the carbon…
Researchers Decoded How Bacteria Prime Important Global Grain Crop Against Deadly Fungus
Anthracnose Alert: How Bacteria Prime Fifth-Biggest Global Grain Crop Against Deadly Fungus Anthracnose of Sorghum bicolor devastates crops of the drought- and heat-resistant cereal worldwide….
Ancient Worm Reveals Way to Destroy Toxic Cells – Potential New Therapy for Huntington’s and Parkinson’s
Insights from their study may provide a novel therapeutic approach for diseases such as Huntington’s and Parkinson’s. Associate Professor Roger Pocock, from the Monash Biomedicine…
“Venus Flytrap” Bio-Sensors Engineered to Snare Pollutants
Scientists from Trinity College Dublin have created a suite of new biological sensors by chemically re-engineering pigments to act like tiny Venus flytraps. The sensors…
Discovery of an Unusual Protein Playing a Significant Role in Earth’s Nitrogen Cycle
Scientists from Bremen discover an unusual protein playing a significant role in the Earth’s nitrogen cycle. The novel heme-containing cytochrome is involved in the anammox…
New Research Into Early Life on Earth Offers Explanation to Carl Sagan’s ‘Faint-Young-Sun’ Paradox
How ancient microbes created massive ore deposits, set the stage for early life on Earth. New research in Science Advances is uncovering the vital role…
Researchers Discover Nature’s Backup Plan for Converting Nitrogen Into Plant Nutrients
Although nitrogen is essential for all living organisms — it makes up 3% of the human body — and comprises 78% of Earth’s atmosphere, it’s…
Scientists Discover Structure of Mysterious Protein Central to the Functioning of DNA
Scientists Now Know What DNA’s Chaperone Looks Like Researchers have discovered the structure of the FACT protein—a mysterious protein central to the functioning of DNA….
