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Short Peptide Molecular Tool Targets Key Diagnostic Disease-Related Proteins

Proteins regulate a wide range of biological processes inside and outside cells by binding to specific molecular partners.

16 Jul 2026

MIT Researchers Grow Blood Vessels by Stretching Them

Tissue engineers are developing methods to produce living organs and tissues from cells in order to replace diseased and damaged ones in the body.

15 Jul 2026

Atomic Level Discovery Reveals Exactly How Inhaled Anesthetics Silence Neurons

Researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine and Birkbeck, University of London, have identified a site where a commonly used anesthetic binds to sodium ion channels, revealing a molecular mechanism that may explain how these drugs dampen communication between neurons.

10 Jul 2026

Innovative Method Decodes Short Peptides With Zero Errors

Our food and our bodies are full of tiny protein fragments called peptides.

17 Jun 2026

Study Provides Surprising Insights Into Special Brain Receptor Complex

Nerve cells in the brain use chemical messengers for communication.

9 Jun 2026

Researchers Reconstruct the Billion Year History of Osmotrophic Eukaryotic Evolution

Decomposers are crucial for keeping Earth habitable, breaking down dead biomass and returning key nutrients, like carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus, back into the ecosystem.

5 Jun 2026

Intact Gut Microbes Accelerate Selenium Excretion to Protect Against Toxic Overload

Selenium is an essential micronutrient that supports antioxidant and immune functions, yet how its metabolism is regulated by interactions between host and gut microbiota remains unclear. In a recent study, researchers from Japan used rats to investigate how gut microbiota and the host jointly manage selenium metabolism.

2 Jun 2026

ION Secures First Global Partners, Advancing Australia's Next Generation of Life Sciences Innovation

Sydney's life sciences sector has reached a major milestone, with Kurraba Group announcing the first confirmed partners for ION – a purpose-built commercial life sciences precinct set to redefine innovation infrastructure in Australia.

From ION 25 May 2026

Drug-Resistant Superbugs Contribute to Nearly Five Million Global Human Deaths Every Year

A team of researchers from Florida State University and the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory is looking to nature to find microbes that can be used to create new antibiotics to treat the growing threat of drug-resistant bacteria.

22 May 2026

Supercomputer Simulations Map Sodium Pumping in Pathogenic Bacteria

The Na+-NQR enzyme is vital for energy production in pathogenic bacteria like the one that causes cholera, making it a highly promising target for new antibiotics.

15 May 2026

Molecular Keyhole Discovery Unlocks New Target for Pain Therapies

Researchers at VIB, VUB, and KU Leuven have identified a tiny binding site, a molecular 'keyhole', in the TRPM3 ion channel, a crucial sensor in pain signaling.

22 Apr 2026

Study Reveals How Neurons Sense Bacterial Signals in Nematodes

Neural interaction with bacteria, e.g. in the gut microbiome, has important effects on brains of animals from worms to people.

21 Apr 2026

Next-Generation Mass Spectrometry Reveals How DIA Deepens Proteome Coverage

A multivendor comparison in a neonatal mouse model of bronchopulmonary dysplasia found that DIA, especially on next-generation platforms such as Orbitrap Astral and timsTOF Ultra, greatly expanded peptide and protein detection while preserving broad biological concordance. The deeper coverage improved subcellular and pathway annotation, increased differential protein detection, and reduced estimated sample-size needs, although platform-specific technical differences still complicated direct comparisons.

19 Apr 2026

Allied Vision Cameras Unlock Research that Could Transform How Cancer Patients Receive Radiotherapy

Allied Vision today announced that its exo183CGE CMOS camera served as the core imaging hardware in a peer-reviewed study on upright radiotherapy patient positioning, a medically critical discipline where millimeter-scale errors can carry clinical consequences.

From Allied Vision 15 Apr 2026

How Single-Cell Proteomics Could Unlock the Rules That Govern Cells

This review shows how single-cell proteomics by mass spectrometry has advanced from an uncertain idea to a rapidly improving toolkit that can now quantify thousands of protein groups from individual cells. It argues that direct protein measurements, combined with better sample preparation, instrumentation, and multiplexing, could help researchers build more mechanistic models of cell biology while pushing throughput far higher.

13 Apr 2026

Researchers Discover Prenatal Genetic Origins of Childhood Absence Epilepsy

Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine have uncovered a previously unrecognized mechanism by which inherited calcium channel mutations disrupt early brain development and predispose children to epilepsy and related cognitive challenges.

6 Apr 2026

Genetic Analysis Reveals Why Haploid Fish Embryos Fail to Survive

Naturally occurring haploids are predominantly documented in plants; the first report dates to 1923, when haploid individuals were identified in the Jimson Weed.

27 Mar 2026

GC Product Division Celebrates 70th Anniversary, European and World Premieres Underscore Progress in Laboratory Analytics

Today, analytica opens its doors in Munich from March 24th to 27th.

From Shimadzu Europa GmbH 27 Mar 2026

The New Nexera IC Ion Chromatograph - Reliable Water Quality Analysis and Reduced Workload Through Smooth Operation

Shimadzu, a leading global supplier of analytical measurement and testing equipment, has recently released the Nexera IC ion chromatograph.

From Shimadzu Europa GmbH 27 Mar 2026

TMC Proteins Found to Regulate Membrane Lipids in the Ears

Proteins long known to be essential for hearing have been hiding a talent: they also act as gatekeepers that shuffle fatty molecules across cell membranes.

24 Feb 2026