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New VR Technology Offers Fresh Insights into Neural Activity

In recent years, mice have entered a new arena – virtual reality – and now Cornell University researchers have built mini VR headsets to more fully immerse them.

20 Dec 2024

New Computational Model Enables Timely Response to Desert Locust Threats

Desert locusts typically lead solitary lives until something - like intense rainfall - triggers them to swarm in vast numbers, often with devastating consequences.

20 Dec 2024

Unraveling the Evolutionary Trajectories of Early Eukaryotes

Advanced tools and expanded fossil datasets have painted a clearer picture of the eukaryotic diversity of the Proterozoic eon, which has been hard to quantify. The findings show that Earth's severe Cryogenian glaciations catalyzed a pivotal shift in the evolution and diversity of early eukaryotes during this eon, 2500 to 538 million years ago.

20 Dec 2024

SMART Software Unlocks New Insights into Cellular Dynamics

Researchers at University of California San Diego have developed and tested a new software package, called Spatial Modeling Algorithms for Reactions and Transport (SMART), that can realistically simulate cell-signaling networks -; the complex systems of molecular interactions that allow cells to respond to diverse cues from their environment.

20 Dec 2024

High-Resolution Technique Maps Ribosome Elongation Cycle

At one time or another, most of us have played with a flipbook, using our thumbs to rapidly flip a series of pictures to create an illusion of movement.

20 Dec 2024

AI Creates the First Virtual Human Cell

A team of scientists from Stanford University, Genentech, and the Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative claims that science has an “unprecedented opportunity” to use artificial intelligence (AI) to create the first virtual human cell in history, pointing out that recent advancements in AI and the availability of extensive experimental data about human biology have reached a critical mass.

13 Dec 2024

Advancing Sequential DNA Computing for Programmable Devices

DNA stores the instructions for life and, along with enzymes and other molecules, computes everything from hair color to risk of developing diseases.

13 Dec 2024

New Imaging Method Reveals Sharper Layers of Cells in Living Tissue

Metabolic imaging is a noninvasive method that enables clinicians and scientists to study living cells using laser light, which can help them assess disease progression and treatment responses.

12 Dec 2024

New Discovery Reveals Unintended Genetic Damage in CRISPR-Cas9 Therapy

Genome editing with various CRISPR-Cas molecule complexes has progressed rapidly in recent years.

5 Dec 2024

AI Tool for Accelerating Biological Discovery

Brian Hie leads the Laboratory of Evolutionary Design at Stanford, focusing on the intersection of artificial intelligence and biology.

5 Dec 2024

AI-Assisted Raman-Activated Cell Sorting for Microbial Analysis

AI-RACS enhances microbial cell sorting by automating identification and isolation, addressing challenges in environmental samples and advancing biotechnology.

4 Dec 2024

Bruker Introduces Dimension Nexus™ Atomic Force Microscope

At the 2024 MRS Fall Meeting & Exhibit, Bruker Corporation today announced the launch of the Dimension Nexus™ atomic force microscope (AFM).

From Bruker Nano Surfaces and Metrology 3 Dec 2024

New Light-Driven Biohybrid System Supports Precise Photoimmunotherapy

In a study published in Cell Reports Physical Science on Nov. 25, a research team led by Prof. CAI Lintao from the Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology (SIAT) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences reported its development of an innovative intelligent light-guided biohybrid system, the CTPA/siCSF1R system, to target tumor-associated macrophages (TAMs), thus enabling precise spatiotemporal siRNA delivery.

28 Nov 2024

New Biogel Test Detects Bacteria Through Simple Color Change

A novel new test for bacteria in fluids makes it as easy as observing a color change to confirm the presence of disease-causing pathogens, promising much easier diagnostic tests and greater food safety.

28 Nov 2024

New Tool to Unravel the Secrets of Malaria Parasite Adhesion

To better understand the highly varied characteristics that enable malaria parasites to adhere to red blood cells and elude the immune system, researchers have developed a new tool.

27 Nov 2024

Smart Researchers Pioneer Method to Detect Dehydration in Plants

Have you ever wondered if your plants were dry and dehydrated, or if you’re not watering them enough? Farmers and green-fingered enthusiasts alike may soon have a way to find this out in real time.

From Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology 26 Nov 2024

Gradient Descent Approach to Optimizing AlphaFold2 Protein Predictions

Proteins are essential to human bodies as building blocks, transport systems, enzymes, and antibodies.

22 Nov 2024

New Technology Isolates Key Gut Bacteria Linked to Disease

Researchers at UMC Utrecht have created a novel technique that effectively separates a particular subset of gut bacteria that are identified by IgA antibodies from fecal samples.

15 Nov 2024

Supercomputer Simulations Uncover Key Proteins in Membrane Recycling

Newly discovered mechanism helps detach and recycle parts of cellular canal membranes as needed – models developed using supercomputer simulations.

14 Nov 2024

MIT Engineers Develop Model to Decode Complex Biological Systems

Over the past two decades, new technologies have helped scientists generate a vast amount of biological data. Large-scale experiments in genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, and cytometry can produce enormous quantities of data from a given cellular or multicellular system.

6 Nov 2024