Decoding Psilocybin: “Magical” Enzymatic Pathways to Psychiatric Breakthroughs
New study sheds light on the structure and evolution of an enzyme in psychoactive fungi. The psychoactive substance psilocybin is the most important natural product…
New study sheds light on the structure and evolution of an enzyme in psychoactive fungi. The psychoactive substance psilocybin is the most important natural product…
TROPOS involvement throughout the Aeolus mission and preparations for the upcoming EarthCARE mission. After completing a very successful mission, ESA’s Aeolus satellite descended from an…
Faysal Bibi from the Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin, and Juan L. Cantalapiedra from the University of Alcalá in Madrid, leveraged thousands of fossil teeth…
In a highly transdisciplinary study, scientists are rebuilding microbial natural products up to 100,000 years old using dental calculus of humans and Neanderthals. Breakthroughs in…
Researchers just discovered that certain T cells can secrete cytokines that are normally part of the innate immune system. They have now revealed several previously…
The findings indicate that new antibody therapies must be developed. Are the currently approved antibody therapies used to treat patients who have a higher risk…
An international team of researchers has now succeeded in detecting hydrotrioxides (ROOOH) under atmospheric conditions for the first time. Until now, the existence of these…
Is it true that women who have twins are more fertile? While prior research concluded they are, a rigorous analysis of more than 100,000 births…
More than anything else, language defines human nature. Speech, the vocal output of language, requires precise control over our vocal articulators, including the tongue, lips,…
Mammals see with their eyes, hear with their ears, and smell with their nose. But which sense or organ allows them to orient themselves on…
The koala retrovirus (KoRV) is a virus that, like other retroviruses such as HIV, inserts itself into the DNA of an infected cell. At some…
The open-source system from the 3D printer delivers high-resolution images like commercial microscopes at hundreds of times the price. Modern microscopes used for biological imaging…
Laboratory results from Leipzig question current knowledge on the degradation of dimethyl sulfide within the sulfur cycle. An international research team was able to experimentally…