Single protein plays key role in almost all lung diseases
From the common cold to pneumonia and potentially life threatening lung diseases: a single protein was found to play a ...
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No, people, 16% of Finnish population ISN’T immune to AIDS
As much as we here at ZME Science love promoting science, we really hate it when the media misinterprets research ...
Underwater Atomic Force Microscopy opens new frontiers for biologists
To fully understand the processes and mechanisms that work at a cellular level, biologists should study them in their native, ...
Stealth nanoparticles sneak past immune system’s defences
Most of the time, when you're sick, you want to deliver drugs and imaging agents to diseased cells or tumours ...
Precursurs to real-life Transformers: tiny robots join together and fold into shapes
Scientists at MIT have created tiny, millimeter-scale robots inspired by proteins that join together and can fold into various shapes. Though ...
Genetic tweak makes plants produce enzyme-replacing drug
Culturing mammalian cells is currently the only way to make some complex proteins used in certain drugs; but growing such ...
New method allows visualizing of protein self-assembly – paves way for nanotech against diseases
Be it a bacteria or a fully complex being, say a human, all living, biological organisms undergo lighting fast protein ...
Gamers solve decade old HIV puzzle in ten days
Scientists from the University of Washington have been struggling for the past decade to decipher the complex structure of an ...
Increasing brain enzyme may slow Alzheimer’s
The fight against Alzheimer's is a harsh and rugged one, and despite numerous advancements, there still isn't a definitive cure ...
Organ size is determined by a protein
The latest in a long line of studies conducted on the fruit fly showed that organs have the molecular mechanisms ...
Lifeless prions are capable of evolution
Researchers from the Scripps Research Institute have determined for the first time that prions, which are just bits of infectious ...
Bioengineered proteins: Trial confirms new way to tackle cancer
The war on cancer is more intense than ever, and it's taking place on many, many fronts. We've seen the ...
NASA researchers help explain why life is left-handed
Scientists that analyzed meteorite dust made some discoveries that gave them clues about the ever standing mystery of how life ...
Glowing jellyfish earns Nobel Prize
This year's Nobel Prize for chemistry has been earned by three scientists who researched into the mysterious green glow of ...
