New research finds that choosing how to meet bioenergy goals means making trade-offs about which…
Month: August 2016
Big trash pickup for cells
Autophagy (self eating) has long been considered a kind of indiscriminate Pac-man like process of…
Excessive alcohol consumption impacts breathing
Researchers have discovered a potential new health concern related to excessive alcohol consumption. Adults who…
New approach for treating skin cancer
Using new and innovative immune-therapeutic approaches to silence ‘don’t eat me’ signaling proteins recognized by…
Protein critical to toxoplasmosis regulation: CD4 T-Cell and Blimp-1
Researchers are finding a way to regulate chronic toxoplasmosis, one of the most common parasitic…
Antibiotic resistance persists in bacteria, even absent selection pressure from antibiotics
Plasmids are pieces of independent DNA that often carry multiple antibiotic resistance genes. Plasmids can…
New silicon structures could make better biointerfaces
A team of researchers have engineered silicon particles one-fiftieth the width of a human hair,…
Iron catalysts can modify amino acids, peptides to create new drug candidates
For medicinal chemists, making tweaks to peptide structures is key to developing new drug candidates….
Real and artificially generated 3-D films are nearly impossible to distinguish
For viewers it seems to be very difficult to tell the difference between real and…
New high-temperature device captures a broader solar wavelength spectrum
Using a heat-resistant device, made of tungsten and alumina layers, researchers have found that the…