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68 molecules key to understanding critical disease
Why is the origin of many serious diseases still a mystery? A scientist gave a view on an indivisible cell, a living unit, to come up with a specific answer.
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Mushrooms help beetles digest wood
According to a group of entomologists and biochemists, a small, little-known fungus in the gut of Asian long-horned beetles has helped them chew the hardest wood.
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The basis of communication between cells within the choanoflagellate
What are the common characteristics of a cell and a cell-structure choanoflagellate? Definitely more than what we can know. A new study of the choanoflagellate genome sh…
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Toothpick: A new molecular tag that identifies minerals and teeth
Considering a lot of plant viruses to understand the causes, material scientists at the University of Technology and National Standards have discovered a small biologica…
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Knock off DNA to keep the viral gene inside
High resolution analysis shows a strange twist of DNA that can hold the viral gene inside a shell, waiting for the opportunity to spread into the host.
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New technology benefits pharmaceutical corporations
Pharmaceutical companies can save millions of pounds thanks to a new technology that can control crystal formation. This technology was developed by University of Leeds…
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Reveal the structure of spicy sensory organs and pain
We can now not only feel the spicy taste of the jalapeno red pepper, but also can see it in three-dimensional images thanks to researchers from Baylor College of Medicin…
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Sugar-coated antibiotics
Researchers at the John Innes Center and the University of East Anglia have recently explained the structure and function of an enzyme involved in attaching sugars to an…
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Discover the secret of spider silk stamina
According to new disclosures published by researchers at MIT's Department of Environmental & Civil Engineering (CEE), the strength of biological materials such as spider…
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Discover the maturation and spread of dengue virus
Purdue University biologists have identified why the dengue virus must undergo structural transformation to mature in host cells, and how important these changes are. fo…
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The first animal on Earth
A study of the evolutionary history of animals has shown the first animal structure on Earth - a mystical creature that we can only speculate on its characteristics base…
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First explore the electrical structure of DNA
Using a combination of low-temperature measurement technology and theoretical calculations, scientists at Jerusalem Jewish University and colleagues pioneered in finding…
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3D virus image has the biggest resolution ever
Wen Jiang, an assistant professor of biological sciences at Purdue University, led the team to use a single electronic cold microscope technique to get 3D images of viru…
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The historical process of life is visible within the structure of transport RNA
Transfer RNA is a long-standing molecule and is the center of every function a cell performs and is therefore essential for all life. A new study from the University of…
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Color butterfly wings structure
Nowhere in nature is there a lot of colors like the wings of butterflies, but scientists still face many obstacles in understanding how to create these colors. Marco Gir…