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Bacteria Have Complex Circadian Clocks, Study Finds

Bacteria make up more than 10% of all living things but until recently we had little realization that, as in humans, soil bacteria have internal clocks that synchronize their activities with the 24-hour cycles of day and night on Earth.

7 Aug 2023

Designing a Lipid Nanoparticle to Safely Deliver mRNA to the Pancreas

Therapeutics that use mRNA-;like some of the COVID-19 vaccines-;have enormous potential for the prevention and treatment of many diseases.

4 Apr 2023

Highly sensitive bioluminescent platform for nucleic acid detection

Despite significant advances, numerous highly sensitive viral disease diagnostic tests even now require complex techniques to prepare a sample or decipher a result, making them inconvenient for point-of-care settings or areas with limited resources.

17 Mar 2023

A reliable way to downregulate gene translation in plants

By carefully constructing upstream open reading frames (uORFs), Caixia Gao’s team at the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has created a new technique for downregulating gene translation to a predictable and desirable level in plants.

10 Mar 2023

Artificial intelligence creates proteins to hasten chemical reactions

Scientists have for the first time utilized machine learning to design whole new enzymes, which are proteins that quicken chemical reactions. In the realm of protein design, this is a crucial development since new enzymes can find several applications in both industrial manufacture and medicine.

23 Feb 2023

Reversal of ADAR1 hyper-editing with small molecule inhibitor

Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine, Sanford Stem Cell Institute and Moores Cancer Center report that a late-stage, pre-clinical small molecule inhibitor, called rebecsinib, reverses malignant hyper-editing by an inflammation-induced protein isoform, known as ADAR1 p150.

17 Feb 2023

Luciferase News and Research

Bacteria Have Complex Circadian Clocks, Study Finds

Designing a Lipid Nanoparticle to Safely Deliver mRNA to the Pancreas

Highly sensitive bioluminescent platform for nucleic acid detection

A reliable way to downregulate gene translation in plants

Artificial intelligence creates proteins to hasten chemical reactions

Reversal of ADAR1 hyper-editing with small molecule inhibitor

Research shows the molecular pathways for trichrome formation and cannabis production

Plant-based nanoparticles likely to provide anti-cancer drug

Nanoparticles mimicking flu viruses to deliver large biological drug molecules

New technique to quantify resistance levels of plants to microbial pathogens

The Last Piece of Our Genome: Sequencing the Y Chromosome

Understanding the Importance of Entrepreneurship in the Life Sciences Community

Supporting Informed Decisions on Malaria Biocontrol Interventions

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