Fluorescent Glow Reveals Hidden Glaze on Chauvet Cave’s Ancient Art
Some of the oldest drawings known to humanity, made roughly 37,000 years ago in France’s Chauvet Cave, are…
Amyloid fibers help sperm deliver RNA to mouse embryos
A longstanding mystery about the genetic messages carried by sperm led researchers to investigate an unexpected component of…
Signal-Produced Oscillations in Intestine Inform Cell Differentiation
Original story from Hubrecht Institute (Utrecht, Netherlands). The intestines use the rhythm of a signal to decide which…
Chemists develop blueprint for designing powerful fluorescent materials for better disease detection
Chemists at the University of Bath have discovered how tiny molecular changes can transform the color and brightness…
Photothermal Spectroscopy Corp. launches stRAMos™ — A breakthrough SRS, Stimulated Raman microscope based on photothermal detection
Photothermal Spectroscopy Corp. today announced the release of stRAMos™, a next-generation Raman microscope based on photothermal detection of…
Chemistry in Pictures: Fluorescent side quest
Tatiana Munteanu was aiming to make light-activated molecular motors, part of a growing class of metamaterials that can…
Salk scientists use DNA origami to track molecular movements
Scientists often describe life as a series of chemical reactions. Pallav Kosuri, PhD, describes life as movement. Chemical…
Scientists uncover how muscle actin filaments grow and renew themselves
Biophysicists unraveled a mystery of how muscles form at the molecular level and how they maintain their function.…
New imaging platform tracks hundreds of neurons at unprecedented depths
The brain is a vast, densely interconnected network of neurons computing in parallel. Watching these computations unfold in…
New miniature microscope stably images brain cells during movement
Researchers at Peking University have developed DUET, a breakthrough dual-color miniature two-photon microscope that overcomes two persistent barriers…
New single-protein analysis technique provides unprecedented information on scramblases
A new single-protein analysis technique gives researchers an unprecedented ability to study proteins called scramblases, which have critical…
DNA-guided CRISPR system targets RNA and expands Cas12 beyond gene editing
A DNA-guided CRISPR platform could make RNA detection and control more stable, scalable, and precise, opening new routes…