Oct 1, 2015 by News Staff

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...

Aug 15, 2015 by News Staff

People who smoke cigarettes know it’s bad for their health, but quitting is difficult. To make it easier, scientists are taking a novel approach –...

Aug 11, 2015 by News Staff

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...

Aug 3, 2015 by News Staff

An international group of researchers – led by Dr Dalial Freitak from the University of Helsinki, Finland – has found that a bee blood protein...

Jun 30, 2015 by News Staff

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...

Feb 6, 2015 by News Staff

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...

Jan 28, 2015 by News Staff

A team of scientists from Australia has discovered that a species of blind water beetle called Limbodessus palmulaoides – living underground for millions...

Jan 28, 2015 by News Staff

In research that could dramatically reduce costs for cancer treatments and food production, a team of chemists from Australia and the United States, led...

Jan 4, 2015 by News Staff

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,...

Sep 23, 2014 by News Staff

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’...

Sep 23, 2014 by News Staff

Researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology have designed new mussel-inspired waterproof adhesives that could be used to heal wounds or repair...

Dec 5, 2013 by News Staff

Scientists led by Dr David Fairlie from the University of Queensland, Australia, have found abnormal amounts of an inflammatory protein called PAR2 in...

Oct 2, 2013 by News Staff

Scientists reporting in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences have discovered a peptide in the venom of the Chinese red-headed centipede,...

Aug 9, 2013 by News Staff

Spanish researchers have analyzed X-ray crystal structures of seven previously ‘resurrected’ 1 – 4 billion year old thioredoxins, small...

Aug 6, 2013 by News Staff

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,...

Jul 8, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

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...

Jun 25, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

U.S. researchers have discovered two large-effect mutations that sparked a hormonal revolution about 500 million years ago. Two mutations altered the energetic...

May 9, 2013 by News Staff

According to a new research headed by virologist Dr Edward Campbell from Loyola University Chicago, a protein called alpha-synuclein, known to be a key...

Feb 28, 2013 by Natali Anderson

A team of researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, the Universidad de Granada and Instituto Andaluz de Ciencias de la Tierra, Spain,...

Feb 20, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

U.S. scientists have discovered that a protein called Jagged-1 stimulates stem cells to differentiate into bone-producing cells. Structure of the Jagged...