Rice lab creates first heat-tolerant, stable fibers from wet-spinning process
Humans have used milk to make cheese for millennia.
A new genetic discovery adds weight to a theory that motor neurone degenerative diseases are caused by abnormal lipid (fat) processing pathways inside brain cells.
A pioneering study has shed new light on how subcellular organelles divide and multiply.
A new combination therapy to combat cancer could one day consist of a plant virus and an antibody that activates the immune system’s “natural killer” cells, shows a study by researchers at the University of California San Diego.
Advance has implications for drug development and biological research
Every day, plants around the world perform an invisible miracle.
A study shows that yeast, an abundant waste product from breweries, can filter out even trace amounts of lead.
Jonathan Weissman and collaborators used their single-cell sequencing tool Perturb-seq on every expressed gene in the human genome, linking each to its job in the cell.
Targeting these circuits could offer a new way to reverse motor dysfunction and depression in Parkinson’s patients.
In a new study at the University of Missouri, researchers found that zinc ion plays a crucial regulatory role in the sperm capacitation process, or series of changes sperm undergo in the female reproductive tract that enable them to fertilize an egg.
Much of what scientists think about soil metabolism may be wrong.
Modern agriculture is underpinned by a steady supply of fertilizer.
A new artificial enzyme has shown it can chew through lignin, the tough polymer that helps woody plants hold their shape.
Visible light triggers Rice’s molecular machines to treat infections
Using a mouse model, researchers from the University of Copenhagen deciphered an alternative route that certain cells take to make organs and used that knowledge to exploit a new type of stem cells as a potential source of organs in a dish.
Scientists have demonstrated how some fast-growing bacteria can resist treatment with antibiotics, according to a study published today in eLife.
An international research team, including scientists from the University of Washington, has established a new upper limit on the mass of the neutrino, the lightest known subatomic particle.
Using powerful tools and techniques developed in the field of structural biology, researchers at the University of Washington and Scripps Research have discovered new details about the human immunodeficiency virus, HIV.
European green crabs feast on shellfish, destroy marsh habitats by burrowing in the mud and obliterate valuable seagrass beds.