A new, ultrabright laser powers a cryo-EM advance 15 years in the making
Key Insights Cryo-electron microscopy has been a transformative technique for structural biologists, but it’s plagued with low-contrast…
Advancing Cushing’s syndrome diagnosis
In this interview, News Medical speaks with Professor Brian Keevil about the growing role of salivary cortisol and…
Fruit fly study links dopamine to stress-induced sexual dysfunction
Scientists from Tokyo Metropolitan University have revealed key parts of the biochemical pathways connecting stress to sexual dysfunction.…
A Glimpse At The Origins Of Life Through A Deceptive Mirror
Adsorption of crystals of a biological chiral molecule onto a gold-coated cobalt surface. Larger crystals of one specific…
Physiological Trade-offs Drive The archaeal Dominance And Carbon Turnover In Deep Subsurface
Conceptual framework of vertically stratified carbon cycling and microbial succession driven by physiological trade-offs in shelf sediments. Organic…
Titan’s Organic World – Astrobiology
Illustration of the thermal structure of Titan’s atmosphere and its atmospheric processes. It illustrates the high-altitude photochemistry of…
A Strange Quantum Effect May Explain One of Biology’s Greatest Mysteries
Researchers have uncovered a possible explanation for why living systems repeatedly choose one molecular form instead of its…
Metformin targets the gut instead of the liver to lower glucose
For decades, physicians and scientists thought metformin, the leading Type 2 diabetes medication taken by millions worldwide, mainly…
Scientists Turn Red Lettuce Green, Unlocking Hidden Nutrients
Red-leaf lettuce gets its color from anthocyanins, antioxidant pigments produced through the flavonoid pathway. Modifying this pathway can…
Powerful Antioxidant Found To Play a Key Role in Proper Protein Folding
The ER is shown in the upper right, with disulfide-linked GSSG in the lumen. The exporter resembles the…
Understanding Life And Homochirality – Astrobiology
Calculated total spin vector and its direction. Spin polarization illustrated by S (blue arrow) for a spin-orbit perturbed…
Methylation-sensitive Cas9 can selectively target DNA in tumor cells
CRISPR-Cas gene-editing tools have revolutionized the world of biotechnology and medicine. And each year, it seems, these…