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Dendritic Cell STING Activation Licenses Cytotoxic T Lymphocyte Priming

Immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) have transformed cancer care, yet only a subset of patients benefit. A major barrier is tumor microenvironment (TME) heterogeneity: "hot" tumors are enriched with cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTLs) and respond better, while "cold" tumors lack T-cell infiltration or are shielded by immunosuppressive barriers.

20 Oct 2026

Non-Dominant Bacterial Networks Drive Stability and Resilience in Gut Microbiome

The stability of the human gut microbiome relies on interactions between different bacterial species. However, the specific molecular mechanisms of these interactions, particularly among non-dominant species, remain largely unexplored.

16 Oct 2026

Collision-Sensing Enables Efficient Bacterial Navigation Through Complex Micro-Scale Mazes

Whether in fish schools, bird flocks or human crowds, moving as a group can offer safety and efficiency, but it can also lead to congestion and jamming," says Alexandre Persat, Professor at EPFL.

7 Oct 2026

Researchers Propose Roadmap for Brain-Wide Lifetime Electrophysiology in Mammalian Models

Understanding the brain requires tools that can follow neural activity across many scales: from millisecond electrical spikes in individual neurons to brain-wide circuit dynamics that change over months, years, and even a lifetime.

10 Sep 2026

Massive Algal Genome Project Opens New Pathways for Biotechnology

An international team of more than 100 scientists have taken a major step towards unlocking the secrets of some of Earth's tiniest but most important organisms.

2 Sep 2026

New Oral Nanomedicine Leverages Gut Metabolites to Destroy Tumors

A joint research team-led by Professor Young Seok Cho from the School of Medicine, alongside Professor James J. Moon from the University of Michigan-has successfully developed the world's first oral, microbiome-based nanomedicine.

12 Aug 2026

Northwestern Chemists Repurpose Flexible DNA as Programmable Molecular Glue

For decades, scientists have largely relied on painstaking trial and error to coax proteins into crystalline forms.

30 Jul 2026

Tescan Unveils the New CLARA to Help Researchers See More at the Nanoscale

Tescan has introduced the new generation of Tescan CLARA™, an ultra-high-resolution scanning electron microscope for nanoscale materials characterization.

From Tescan 24 Jul 2026

Scripps Research Identifies Erucamide Molecule as Shield Against Blindness

Many conditions that cause vision loss share a common feature: the gradual breakdown of the retina, the light-sensing tissue at the back of the eye.

23 Jun 2026

Drug Development: Development of Dextran Nanoparticles for Stabilizing Delicate Proteins

Nanoscale Research Letters, an open access journal published under Springer Open, presented a study entitled "Development of Dextran Nanoparticles for Stabilizing Delicate Proteins." In this study, a Brookhaven NanoBrook 90Plus Particle Size Analyzer was used to help develop a novel approach to stabilize and encapsulate proteins into dextran nanoparticles.

From Brookhaven Instruments 29 Apr 2026

Kinesin Motor Protein Variations Control Cargo Specificity in Neuronal Transport

Intracellular transport is a vital process that allows cells to move proteins and other molecules to specific locations.

13 Apr 2026

Single-Letter Insertion in Non-Coding DNA can Alter Sex Development in Mice

Researchers at Bar-Ilan University have discovered that changing just one letter in DNA can completely alter sex development in mice.

11 Apr 2026

UTMB Researchers Develop AI Pipeline to Accelerate Pan-Alphavirus Vaccine Development

A team of scientists at The University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB), led by Nikos Vasilakis, PhD, and Peter McCaffrey, MD, has developed a new computational pipeline that could dramatically accelerate the development of vaccines against a group of mosquito-borne viruses known as alphavirus.

11 Apr 2026

Implantable Cell Factory Device Delivers Sustained Biologic Drug Production

Implanting living cells as long-term drug producers could transform treatment for numerous diseases, but it is difficult to house the tiny workers in quantities high enough to ensure dosage needs are met while also keeping the cells alive and thriving.

28 Mar 2026

Study Demonstrates Information Exchange Between Right-Handed and Mirror DNA

A new study by NYU chemists finds that DNA tiles can assemble into 3D structures without the sticky cohesion of hydrogen bonding. This finding, published in Nature Communications, turns a fundamental paradigm in the field of DNA self-assembly on its head.

3 Mar 2026

Scientists Create Charge-Free Polymer to Improve Gene Therapy Delivery

Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have created a new molecule which carries DNA into biological cells, to treat or vaccinate against illnesses.

23 Feb 2026

Bacteria Use One Simple Strategy to Navigate Complex Worlds

Just like every other creature, bacteria have evolved creative ways of getting around. Sometimes this is easy, like swimming in open water, but navigating more confined spaces poses different challenges.

19 Jan 2026

Simple Vibration Platform Enables Uniform Biomolecular Condensate Formation

A research group led by Professor Hiroaki SUZUKI and Takeshi HAYAKAWA from the Faculty of Science and Engineering at Chuo University, graduate student Zhitai HUANG, graduate students Kanji KANEKO (at the time) and Ryotaro YONEYAMA (at the time), together with Specially Appointed Assistant Professor Tomoya MARUYAMA from the Research Center for Autonomous Systems Materialogy (ASMat), Institute of Integrated Research (IIR), Institute of Science Tokyo, and Professor Masahiro TAKINOUE from the Laboratory for Chemistry and Life Science, Institute of Integrated Research, Institute of Science Tokyo, has developed a novel and highly accessible technology for producing uniform Biomolecular Condensates using a simple, low-cost vibration platform.

23 Dec 2025

Capturing a Self-Splicing Ribozyme in Motion

RNA is a central biological macromolecule, now widely harnessed in medicine and nanotechnology. Like proteins, RNA function often depends on its precise three-dimensional structure.

28 Nov 2025

Scientists Uncover Inner Workings of Biomolecular Condensates Linked to ALS

Inside the cell reside many tiny assembly factories and warehouses that gather together all of the proteins and RNAs-which carry out instructions from our DNA-that a living being needs.

27 Nov 2025