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Heat-Loving Marine Bacteria can Help Reduce Asbestos' Toxicity

Asbestos materials were once widely used in homes, buildings, automobile brakes and many other built materials due to their strength and resistance to heat and fire, as well as to their low electrical conductivity.

16 May 2023

Cell-to-Cell Genetic Module Exchange for Crop Evolution

According to a recent study conducted by researchers at New York University, comparing individual cells from corn, sorghum, and millet indicates discrepancies in these significant cereal crops’ evolutionary history.

From New York University (NYU) 16 May 2023

Researchers Elucidate the Molecular Mechanism of Protein Degradation by Extracellular Chaperones

When exposed to stressful conditions, several proteins tend to misfold and form aggregates inside or outside cells.

12 May 2023

How Bacteria Take Action to Break Out of Dormancy

Solving a riddle that has confounded biologists since bacterial spores -; inert, sleeping bacteria -; were first described more than 150 years ago, researchers at Harvard Medical School have discovered a new kind of cellular sensor that allows spores to detect the presence of nutrients in their environment and quickly spring back to life.

2 May 2023

Plant Response to Elevated Carbon Dioxide is Transgenerational and Orchestrated by DNA Methylation

New research lead by Keith Slotkin, PhD, member, Donald Danforth Plant Science Center opens the door for scientists to equip plants with the tools they need to adapt to rising levels of carbon dioxide (CO2), high heat, and other stressors associated with climate change.

12 Apr 2023

Stimulating Beige Fat Production Could Help Reverse the Effects of Age-Related Slowing Metabolism

New research suggests a strategy to ward off age-related weight gain, which could prevent obesity and associated health disorders like Type 2 diabetes, heart disease and chronic inflammation.

7 Apr 2023

Evolutionary Encounter of Two Protein Components Could Occur Entirely by Chance

Proteins are the key players for virtually all molecular processes within the cell. To fulfil their diverse functions, they have to interact with other proteins.

7 Apr 2023

Triglyceride Cycling Process Modifies Stored Fatty Acids

Fat molecules serve as energy storage for fat cells. They consist of three fatty acids attached to a backbone of glycerol.

4 Apr 2023

Researchers Uncover a New, Direction-Dependent Friction in Proteins

An interdisciplinary research team of the Institutes of Physical Chemistry and Physics of the University of Freiburg and the Max Planck Institute of Biophysics in Frankfurt-am-Main has discovered a new, direction-dependent friction in proteins called anisotropic friction.

3 Apr 2023

First atomic-level structure of 'oil-eating' enzyme paves way for bioengineered catalysts

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory have produced the first atomic-level structure of an enzyme that selectively cuts carbon-hydrogen bonds-;the first and most challenging step in turning simple hydrocarbons into more useful chemicals.

31 Mar 2023

New breakthrough in controlling plant responses to temperature

UC Riverside scientists have significantly advanced the race to control plant responses to temperature on a rapidly warming planet.

24 Mar 2023

CABBI/GLBRC researchers peer into the complexities of life on a leaf

"Have you ever wondered about life on a leaf?" Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (GLBRC) researcher Ashley Shade asks a simple question, but it's one well worth investigation.

22 Mar 2023

CRISPR/Cas method could help save rice crops threatened by climate change

A review of gene editing techniques suggests that the CRISPR/Cas (clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats/Cas) method could be a possible 'savior' for rice crops threatened by climate change and high food demand.

3 Mar 2023

Pungent ginger constituent puts white blood cells on heightened alert

Ginger has a reputation for stimulating the immune system. New results from the Leibniz Institute for Food Systems Biology at the Technical University of Munich (Leibniz-LSB@TUM) now support this thesis.

15 Feb 2023

New method maps spontaneous formation of protein-rich droplets

Terahertz spectroscopy maps spontaneous formation of protein-rich droplets that may lead to neurodegenerative diseases.

13 Feb 2023

Biogas produced from apple pomace could help reduce use of fossil fuels

Scientists at the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP) and the Federal University of the ABC (UFABC) in São Paulo state, Brazil, have successfully produced biogas from apple pomace, the pulpy residue remaining after the fruit has been crushed to extract its juice.

10 Feb 2023