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Researchers Find New Way to Make Bacteria more Sensitive to Antibiotics

August 13, 2020
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Singapore — Researchers from Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART), MIT’s research enterprise in Singapore, have discovered a new way to reverse antibiotic resistance in...

Phylogenetic Analysis Reveals Evolution of Mitochondrial Calcium Transporter

August 13, 2020
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Barcelona, Spain — The system that regulates cellular calcium levels duplicated, generating two non-equivalent systems, some one billion years ago before fungi and animals diverged evolutionarily. The...

Porous Liquids Allow for Efficient Gas Separation

August 13, 2020
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Karlsruhe, Germany — Jointly with cooperation partners, a researcher of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) has developed “porous liquids”: Nanoparticles, that are able to separate...

Programmed Bacteria have Something Extra

August 13, 2020
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Houston, TX — Rice University chemist Han Xiao and his team have successfully expanded the genetic code of Escherichia coli bacteria to produce a synthetic building block, a “noncanonical amino...

Researchers Identify a Protein That may Help SARS-CoV-2 Spread Rapidly Through Cells

August 13, 2020
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Fort Collins, CO — Eric Ross and Sean Cascarina, biochemistry and molecular biology researchers at Colorado State University, have released a research paper identifying a protein encoded by SARS-CoV-2,...

Lab-Created Molecule Achieves Positive Results in the Treatment of Arthritis

August 12, 2020
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São Paulo, Brazil — Arthritis affects almost 2% of the world’s population, or some 150 million people, and currently, there is no completely effective treatment for this chronic disease. A new molecule...

Recipe for Success — Interaction Proteomics Become a Household Item

August 12, 2020
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Helsinki, Finland — Proteins in human cells do not function in isolation and their interactions with other proteins define their cellular functions. Therefore, detailed understanding of protein-protein...

Researchers Find Clues to Clarify Why Cohesine Has a Role in Cancer and Cardiac Development

August 12, 2020
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Madrid, Spain — Ana Losada, from the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO), is the scientist who identified cohesin in vertebrates, a protein that is essential in cell division. Losada has...

Rare Glassy Metal Discovered During Quest to Improve Battery Performance

August 12, 2020
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Idaho Falls, ID — Materials scientists studying recharging fundamentals made an astonishing discovery that could open the door to better batteries, faster catalysts and other materials science leaps. Scientists...

Molecular Additives Enhance Mechanical Properties of Organic Solar Cell Material

August 12, 2020
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Bethlehem, PA — Organic solar cells are ideal for use in flexible electronics because of the inherently malleable nature of semiconducting polymers. Recent research on the interplay between processing,...

Secretion of Sugar Polymers Modulates Multicellularity in the Bacterium Myxococcus Xanthus

August 12, 2020
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Quebec, QC, Canada — Research by INRS (Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique) Professor Salim Timo Islam and his PhD student Fares Saïdi has recently revealed that multicellular physiology...

Imaging Method Highlights New Role for Cellular “Skeleton” Protein

August 11, 2020
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La Jolla, CA — While your skeleton helps your body to move, fine skeleton-like filaments within your cells likewise help cellular structures to move. Now, Salk researchers have developed a new imaging...

From Nanocellulose to Gold

August 11, 2020
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Linköping, Sweden — When nanocellulose is combined with various types of metal nanoparticles, materials are formed with many new and exciting properties. They may be antibacterial, change colour under...

Detailed Molecular Workings of a Key System in Learning and Memory Formation

August 11, 2020
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Amherst, MA — One of the new realities in biomedical research is that it’s increasingly difficult to use a general approach to score advances. Now, investigations into disease mechanisms, for...

COVID-19 does not Directly Damage Taste Bud Cells

August 11, 2020
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Athens, GA — A new study from the Regenerative Bioscience Center at the University of Georgia is the first to suggest that COVID-19 does not directly damage taste bud cells. Contrary to previous...

Evolutionary Assimilation of Foreign DNA in a New Host

August 11, 2020
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La Jolla, CA — All life is subject to evolution in the form of mutations that change the DNA sequence of an organism’s offspring, after which natural selection allows the ‘fittest’...

Nanocatalysts that Remotely Control Chemical Reactions Inside Living Cells

August 11, 2020
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Pohang, South Korea — The enzymes responsible for catalytic reactions in our body’s biological reactions are difficult to use for diagnosis or treatment as they react only to certain molecules...

NSD2 Enzyme Appears to Prevent Cellular Senescence

August 11, 2020
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Kumamoto, Japan — Researchers from Kumamoto University in Japan have used comprehensive genetic analysis to find that the enzyme NSD2, which is known to regulate the actions of many genes, also works...

Adding Another Dimension to Cell Culture Model for Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension

August 11, 2020
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Okayama, Japan — Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is a rare–albeit deadly–disease that affects the arteries of the lung. In PAH, abnormal growth of cells of the vascular media–or...

Success in Promoting Plant Growth for Biodiesel

August 10, 2020
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Saitama, Japan — In JST Strategic Basic Research Programs, a group of Zhongrui Duan (Researcher, Waseda University) and Motoki Tominaga (Associate professor, Waseda University) et al. succeeded in...

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