Study of Ancient Proteins Clarifies Mystery of Crocodiles’ Unique Hemoglobin
Experiments on ancient proteins reveal that mutations are more numerous and nuanced than previously believed. It can pogo-stick along at 50-plus miles per hour, leaping…
Experiments on ancient proteins reveal that mutations are more numerous and nuanced than previously believed. It can pogo-stick along at 50-plus miles per hour, leaping…
Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology have uncovered how a methane-producing microbe thrives on toxic sulfite without becoming poisoned. Methanogens are tiny…
The Scripps Research team demonstrated that a variant of an existing FDA-approved treatment for neurological disorders may prevent COVID-19 infection in animals. Scientists at Scripps…
Researchers have created low-cost substances for tumor therapy and diagnosis. Researchers from the Ural Federal University and the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of…
Expanded library of known variants, new research efforts aid the fight against fentanyl. While COVID-19 has dominated the news for the last two years, a…
Environmental structure affects interactions between microbial species, making the common kitchen sponge a better incubator for bacterial diversity than a laboratory Petri dish. Researchers at…
Why neuron-like implants could offer a better way to treat Alzheimer’s disease or post-traumatic stress disorder, control prosthetics, or even enhance cognitive abilities. Recently, Charles…
In terms of size, it may be the smallest scientific breakthrough ever made at Harvard. Harvard Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology Kang-Kuen Ni…
An international team of researchers, including scientists from the University of York, has discovered a set of enzymes found in fungi that are capable of…
Chemists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have developed a fascinating new theory for how life on Earth may have begun. Their experiments, described today…
Researchers at the universities of Kent and Bristol have built a miniature scaffold inside bacteria that can be used to bolster cellular productivity, with implications…
A new study reveals that under certain conditions gut microbes can consume enough of a key nutrient to cause a deficiency in their hosts. For…
To prevent genetically modified bacteria from escaping into the wider environment, MIT researchers have developed safeguards in the form of two so-called “kill switches,” which…
A newly published study details how scientists used a chemical probe to dissect individual catalytic steps of enoyl-thioester reductases, validating an active site tyrosine as…
A newly published study details how researchers turned an ordinary protein into an artificial enzyme, a biological catalyst capable of joining two segments of RNA….
Sequencing DNA is nothing new, but it’s much harder to sequence the DNA of a single cell. In order to get enough DNA for sequencing,…