Researchers have refined a method to modify an antibody’s sugar group structure, which plays a…
Month: March 2017
Rapid decline of Arctic sea ice a combination of climate change and natural variability
The dramatic decline of Arctic sea ice in recent decades is caused by a mixture…
Mystery of memory cells answered through mouse study
Researchers have identified a molecular mechanism that operates in memory T cells that could be…
A perfect storm of fire and ice may have led to snowball Earth
What caused the largest glaciation event in Earth’s history, known as ‘snowball Earth’? Geologists and…
Pre-existing immunity to dengue virus shapes Zika-specific T cell response
Although Zika and dengue are considered different virus “species,” they are so closely related that…
For hospitalized patients, spending more on care doesn’t buy better health
Hospitalized patients treated by physicians who order more or more expensive tests and procedures are…
Parallel cellular pathways activate the process that controls organ growth
While proteins that control organ growth accumulate around the edges of cells, they actually function…
How cells communicate to move together as a group
A new signaling system has been discovered that epithelial cells use to coordinate their individual…
Chemists color world of 3-D crystals with advances in self-assembly
A team of chemists has created self-assembled, three-dimensional DNA crystals that can bind a separate,…
‘Good’ bacteria is potential solution to unchecked inflammation seen in bowel diseases
In a new report, researchers describe how inflammation can go unchecked in the absence of…