By Dr. Chinta Sidharthan Scientists discover that even mild COVID-19 infections can alter brain proteins linked to ...

The results suggest that the radioactive dust originated in Algeria's Reggane region, but its plutonium levels didn't match ...

Analytical biochemistry is the study of biochemical components found in a cell or other biological sample. This scientific discipline uses a broad range of techniques for separation ...

Wageningen researchers have discovered that a vital plant protein originated more than 600 million years ago, long before the ...

Antibiotic resistance is a global public health crisis responsible for more than a million deaths annually. By 2050, the World Health Organization estimates it could surpass cancer and heart disease ...

Adhesion G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) are a group of cell-surface sensors associated with many body functions and diseases. However, they are not yet sufficiently understood to be exploited for ...

Scientists have pioneered a groundbreaking method to combat snake venom using newly designed proteins, offering hope for more ...

Unnatural Products, a Santa Cruz-based biotech company founded by UC Santa Cruz alumni Cameron Pye and Joshua Schwochert ...

15, in Nature. The lead author of the paper is Susana Vazquez Torres of the Department of Biochemistry at the UW School of Medicine and the UW Graduate Program in Biological Physics. Her hometown ...

Oxygen can destroy hydrogen-producing enzymes. Researchers from Bochum and Osaka have discovered how an extraordinary protein survives in the presence of oxygen. Three years ago, a partial ...

The study, "Neuronal segmentation in cephalopod arms," was published January 15, 2025, in Nature Communications. Each octopus arm has a massive nervous system, with more neurons combined across ...

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