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Researchers Create New Solid Biomaterial from Smaller Engineered Proteins

University of British Columbia researchers have cast artificial proteins into a new solid biomaterial that very closely mimics the elasticity of muscle. The approach, detailed in the current issue of the journal Natur...

6 May 2010

New Research on Multistage Nanovector System

New research by scientists at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) and The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center could make it easier for patients to use a family of promising ex...

6 May 2010

Scientists Discover Vital Molecular Mechanism in Breast Cancer

Scientists at the University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center have identified a key molecular mechanism in breast cancer that enables tumor cells to spread to adjacent or distant parts of the body in a process calle...

5 May 2010

Cryo-Electron Microscopy Technique Helps to Study Biological Nano-Structures

UCLA researchers report in the April 30 edition of the journal Cell that they have imaged a virus structure at a resolution high enough to effectively "see" atoms, the first published instance of imaging biological complexes at such a resolution.

5 May 2010

Specialized Fluorescent Protein to Visualize Electrical Activity in Neurons

Working with fellow experts from Switzerland and Japan, scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research in Heidelberg successfully used a specialized fluorescent protein to visualize electrical activity in neurons of living mice.

4 May 2010

Study on Light Harvesting Mechanism of Purple Bacteria

Purple bacteria were among the first life forms on Earth. They are single celled microscopic organisms that play a vital role in sustaining the tree of life.

4 May 2010

New Tool for Rapid DNA Damage Analysis Promises to Make Impact on Human Health

Our DNA is under constant siege from a variety of damaging agents. Damage to DNA and the ability of cells to repair that damage has broad health implications, from aging and heritable diseases to cancer.

3 May 2010

LCMS Technique Helps Scripps Research Team to Analyze Stem Cells

In findings that could one day lead to new therapies, researchers from The Scripps Research Institute have described some striking differences between the biochemistry of stem cells versus mature cells. The ...

3 May 2010

Researchers Successfully Isolate Sample of Positronium Atoms

Positronium is a short-lived system in which an electron and its anti-particle are bound together. In 2007, physicists at the University of California, Riverside created molecular positronium, a brand-new substance, in the laboratory.

3 May 2010

Rotaxane Molecules of Genetic Material Open Up New Possibilities in the Field of Nanorobotics

Scientists at the University Bonn have succeeded in producing a molecule consisting of a double-stranded DNA - the so-called rotaxane - whose individual parts are movableFor years, biochemists have been puzzling over rot...

3 May 2010