It has been over 60 years since Osamu Shimomura et al. discovered Green Fluorescent Protein (GFP)1. Since then, the color ...

A bright and photostable far-red fluorescent protein, smURFP, was developed from a cyanobacterial phycobiliprotein. smURFP uniquely binds a highly cell-permeable biliverdin derivative to obtain ...

Looking at life today, it is difficult to imagine how complex biological processes and structures could have developed from ...

我们可以这样理解：细胞死亡程序的启动，相当于给细胞膜装上了由NINJ1构成的“预制薄弱点”。但这并不意味着细胞会立即“爆炸”。它进入了一种“待破裂”的脆弱状态。最终是否会发生灾难性的、完全的破裂，还取决于它所处的物理微环境。

Researchers at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) demonstrated that metabolic reactions can occur in water-filled pores ...

Caffeine appears to do more than perk you up—it activates AMPK, a key cellular fuel sensor that helps cells cope with stress ...

Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics have developed a novel synthetic micropeptide termed the ...

When you look up at the blue sky, where are the stars that you see at night? They’re there but we can’t see them. A firefly flitting across a field is invisible to us during the day, but at ...

Most of us turn to coffee for a quick boost in the morning—but new research suggests that caffeine may also be helping our ...

Switchable fluorescent proteins, able to move reversibly between two optical states, have been known from some years. But now, German researchers have discovered the mechanism behind this optical ...