Small water molecules control protein motion, a new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has found.
According to Zhong...
Generating functional pancreatic β (beta) cells in the lab has been a challenge for diabetes researchers. When human stem cells develop into beta cells...
A team of scientists at Umeå University in Sweden has discovered a special group of muscle fibers in the soft palate of the human mouth.
Upper respiratory...
A large team of American scientists has found evidence of blood vessel-like structures in the fossil of Brachylophosaurus canadensis, a mid-sized duck-billed...
An international group of researchers has identified genes that disable HIV-1, suggesting a promising new strategy for battling the virus that causes AIDS.
HIV-1...
An international team of scientists, led by Dr Gareth Lim and Dr James Johnson from the University of British Columbia, has discovered a gene that could...
A new inherited form of type 2 diabetes and obesity has been discovered by a team of scientists co-led by Dr Anthony Goldstone and Prof Alexandra Blakemore...
A group of researchers led by Dr Robert Hazen from Carnegie Institution of Washington has found well-preserved protein sheets in 15-million-year-old fossilized...
A team of scientists from Australia has discovered that a species of blind water beetle called Limbodessus palmulaoides – living underground for millions...
In research that could dramatically reduce costs for cancer treatments and food production, a team of chemists from Australia and the United States, led...
A team of researchers co-led by Prof Adam Frost from the University of Utah and the University of California, Prof Onn Brandman of Stanford University,...
U.S. scientists headed by Dr Chi-Hing Christina Cheng of the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign have discovered that the so-called ‘antifreeze’...
Researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology have designed new mussel-inspired waterproof adhesives that could be used to heal wounds or repair...
Scientists led by Dr David Fairlie from the University of Queensland, Australia, have found abnormal amounts of an inflammatory protein called PAR2 in...
Scientists reporting in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences have discovered a peptide in the venom of the Chinese red-headed centipede,...
According to a team of researchers from the United States, Russia and Spain, the discovery of a new protein, named ceramide-1 phosphate transport protein,...
A multinational team of scientists led by Prof Benjamin Blencowe from the University of Toronto has identified proteins that play a key role in controlling...