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Potential Strategies for Slowing Cognitive Deterioration in Age-Associated Neurodegenerative Conditions

As we age, our bodies undergo various changes that can impact our overall health and make us more susceptible to diseases.

3 Aug 2023

Researchers Develop New Photoenzymatic Method to Produce Chiral Amines

Using energy from light to activate natural enzymes can help scientists create new-to-nature enzymatic reactions that support eco-friendly biomanufacturing -; the production of fuels, plastics, and valuable chemicals from plants or other biological systems.

1 Aug 2023

Cornell Researchers Develop a Multimodal Platform to Image Biohybrids

When considering ways to sustainably generate environmentally friendly products, bacteria might not immediately spring to mind.

31 Jul 2023

'Orphan' Gene may Have Evolved to Give Seahorses Their Unique Brood Pouch

Teleost fish encompass a diverse group, among which seahorses display a unique morphology. The characteristic spines and brood pouch seen in seahorses feature distinctive epithelial cells-;called flame cone cells-;covered by a mucous cap.

25 Jul 2023

The Evolutionary Enigma: Unraveling the Origins of Seahorses' Flame Cone Cells

A brood pouch in male fish and bony plates gives seahorses their distinctive shape.

24 Jul 2023

Convolutional Neural Network for Quantitative Analysis of Cell Organelles

High-brilliance X-Rays from BESSY II can be utilized to create microscopic images with a spatial resolution of as little as a few tens of nanometers. Without the complicated sample preparation required for electron microscopy, whole cell volumes can be analyzed.

19 Jul 2023

Extrusion-Mediated Self-Renewal: A New Way for Kidney Cells to Stay Healthy

University of Texas at Dallas scientists have discovered a previously unknown "housekeeping" process in kidney cells that ejects unwanted content, resulting in cells that rejuvenate themselves and remain functioning and healthy.

14 Jul 2023

New Insights Into How Genes Are Activated

Genetic information contained within DNA has to be read by specific proteins that enable the process of gene activation to begin – but in many cases, these proteins can't access their targets because DNA strands are bundled up to control what genes are used in the wide range of different cell types.

12 Jul 2023

Cryo-EM Reveals Structure of GABA Transporter

Using Cryo-EM, a powerful microscopy technique, researchers at IISc and collaborators have decoded the molecular architecture of a transporter protein controlling the movement of a key neurotransmitter.

7 Jul 2023

New View of Euchromatin in the Cell Analyzed

In their study performed, the research group discusses their novel view of euchromatin present in the cell and displays how the disclosed organization is appropriate to genome functions.

28 Jun 2023

Using Pressure to Understand RNA Dynamics

Similar to how there are limitless secrets in space, there is still a lot to discover when looking at biomolecules, which are one trillion times smaller than a meter.

23 Jun 2023

Elaborate 3D Structures of DNA That Mimics Protein Functions

According to a study from scientists at Weill Cornell Medicine and the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, a division of the National Institutes of Health, DNA can imitate protein activities by folding into complex, three-dimensional structures.

22 Jun 2023

Innovative Technique Enables In Vivo Imaging of Intracellular Protein Aggregates

Tau aggregates have become the main study focus for figuring out the mechanisms underlying neurodegeneration since they are a prevalent form of amyloid protein. Tau fibrils and oligomers, among other forms of tau aggregates, have been linked to a variety of neurodegenerative disorders.

21 Jun 2023