The SARS-CoV-2 virus inserts itself into the membrane of a host human cell using a small part of its spike protein (yellow), called a fusion…
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Researchers from North Carolina State University have turned a longstanding challenge in DNA data storage into a tool, using it to offer users previews of…
Most high-value chemicals are currently produced using fossil fuels – industrial chemistry’s use of petroleum accounts for 14% of all greenhouse gas emissions. An exciting…
“Now we can mimic the massive ‘experiment’ going on in nature — where these mutations pop up due to natural selection — but we can…
The amyloid beta protein that tangles to form the hallmark Alzheimer’s brain plaques, cling to ultra-small “bowls,” called nanobowls, scientists find. They can use these…
Pinwheel flower. Credit: LIH LIH and RTI International put forward the mode of action of natural painkiller conolidine, and develop new molecule with enhanced pharmacological…
Scientists look to untangle the mysteries of antibodies specific to SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, in search of better tests and possible cures. Credit:…
The global brain signal in Alzheimer’s disease patients is associated with weaker cerebrospinal fluid flow as compared with healthy controls. Credit: Feng Han and Xiao…
The illustration of the viral membrane lipid bi-layer shows the water-loving heads (yellow circles) and water-hating tails (blue squiggles). AEG12, based on the protein’s crystal…
Catching the elusive intermediate. Credit: ICIQ ICIQ scientists from the Lloret-Fillol group have, for the first time, isolated and fully characterized an elusive intermediate in…
Confocal microscopic image of cortical neurons after two-step labeling. The neurons were fixed, permeabilized, and immunostained with an anti-MAP2 antibody for visualizing the dendrite. Green…
Alzheimer’s disease – also called dementia – where memory and cognitive functions gradually decline due to deformation and death of neurons, and Parkinson’s disease that…
Images of cells showing close proximity (yellow) of GRP78 (green) with Spike protein of SARS-Cov-2 (red) (left panels) and ACE2 (red) (right panels). Credit: Lead…
Using EMBL Hamburg’s world-class beamline P12 at DESY’s PETRA III synchrotron, researchers directed powerful X-ray beams at artificial proteins called coiled-coil origami proteins. Credit: Fabio…
Banded iron deposits like these contain clues to the Great Oxygenation Event. Credit: Weizmann Institute of Science A look at enzyme evolution suggests life figured…
A variety of molecules protrude from the cell surface, including glycoproteins, glycolipids, and the newly discovered glycoRNAs. This illustration depicts RNA as a double-stranded stem…
Electron microscopy images representing different views of the MC4 receptor bound to setmelanotide, in complex with proteins activated by the binding. Credit: Weizmann Institute of…
A piece of the tumor was made completely transparent and scanned in 3D with a special microscope. The components labeled with fluorescent colors were rendered…
Sampling with the ROV in the home of the investigated microbes, the Guaymas-Beckens. Credit: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Why methane carbon isotopes in the deep…