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Newly Discovered Barrier Prevents Immunity from Reaching Smell-Sensing Cells

The structure, dubbed the BOB, fits with some of the mysteries of COVID

Chlamydia’s Stealthy Cloaking Device Identified

Microbial proteins around a sexually transmitted infection allow pathogen to hide undetected inside host cells

Ending a 50-Year Mystery, UVA Reveals How Bacteria Can Move

School of Medicine researchers and their collaborators have solved a decades-old mystery about how E. coli and other bacteria are able to move.

Discovery Could Power Up Platelet Production to Battle Blood Shortages

A new discovery from the University of Virginia School of Medicine could let doctors ramp up production of blood-clotting platelets on demand, a timely finding following the Red Cross’ declaration earlier this year of a national blood “crisis.”

Pheasant Meat Sold for Food Found to Contain Many Tiny Shards of Toxic Lead

Eating pheasant killed using lead shot is likely to expose consumers to raised levels of lead in their diet, even if the meat is carefully prepared to remove the shotgun pellets and the most damaged tissue.

New Phases of Water Detected

Water can be liquid, gas or ice, right? Think again.

Collaborative Paper Finds Cell-to-Cell Communication Mathematically Optimal

Cell-to-cell communication is a large part of Professor Dae Seok Eom’s research.

How a Protein Breaks Free to Cause Deadly Cancers

UCI-led finding helps propel search for improved treatments

Cinderella of Chemical Biology

Small molecules, largely ignored until now, have regulatory functions in stress reduction

Pioneering Research Using Bacteria Brings Scientists a Step Closer to Creating Artificial Cells with Lifelike Functionality

Scientists have harnessed the potential of bacteria to help build advanced synthetic cells which mimic real life functionality.

Golm Scientist Receives Jeff Schell Prize for Breakthrough in Genetic Modification of Mitochondria

This year, the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology in Potsdam honours again a young scientist for his pioneering research on plant mitochondria.

What Carotenoids Have to Do with Plant Yield and Tolerance

Changes in carotenoid metabolism can simultaneously influence yield, stress tolerance, and nutritional content in plants

Algae Are the More Efficient “Plants”

New method in algae research could lead to future yield increases in crops

Case Solved: the Biosynthesis of Strychnine Elucidated

Researchers from Jena show how the poison nut tree forms strychnine

Enzyme of Bacterial Origin Promoted the Evolution of Longhorned Beetles

Gene duplication increased the diversity and specificity of enzymes that enable beetle larvae to degrade important wood components.

Antagonistic Interactions of Plant Defense Compounds

Tobacco hornworms neutralize different defense mechanisms of tobacco plants after ingestion

Uncovering the Genome’s Regulatory Code

Since the sequencing of the human genome in 2001, all our genes – around 20,000 in total – have been identified.

Cracking the Code of a Natural RNA Editor

Newly discovered editing rule may be exploited to correct genetic defects

Optical Rule Was Made to Be Broken

Rice engineers’ formula IDs materials for virtual reality, 3D displays

Making and Breaking of Chemical Bonds in Single “Nanoconfined” Molecules

Research team investigates reactivity of single molecules under controlled microscopic conditions