Biochemistry News
April 18, 2025
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Apr. 17, 2025 — An international team of physicists has made a significant observation of the BKT phase transition in a 2D dipolar gas of ultracold atoms. This groundbreaking work marks a major milestone in ...
Apr. 17, 2025 — A study has found a rare form of one-dimensional quantum magnetism in a metallic compound, offering evidence into a phase space that has remained, until now, largely theoretical. The study comes at a ...
Apr. 16, 2025 — Imagine tiny building toy pieces that automatically snap together to form a strong, flat sheet. Then, scientists add special chemical 'hooks' to these sheets to attach glowing molecules called fluorophores. Researchers have created these tiny, ...
Apr. 16, 2025 — A recently created RoboBee is now outfitted with its most reliable landing gear to date, inspired by one of nature's most graceful landers: the crane fly. The team has given their flying robot a set of long, jointed legs that help ease its ...
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Apr. 16, 2025 — There's a sensation that you experience -- near a plane taking off or a speaker bank at a concert -- from a sound so total that you feel it in your very being. When this happens, not only do your ...
Apr. 16, 2025 — A team of researchers has identified a promising new approach that may one day help to restore vision in people affected by macular degeneration and ...
Apr. 16, 2025 — A bioreactor that mimics a circulatory system can deliver nutrients and oxygen to artificial tissue, enabling the production of over 10 grams of ...
Apr. 15, 2025 — Researchers have developed a machine learning workflow to optimize the output force of photo-actuated organic crystals. Using LASSO regression to ...
Apr. 15, 2025 — Researchers have demonstrated a way to use corn protein to improve the performance of lithium-sulfur batteries, a finding that holds promise for expanding the use of the high-energy, lighter-weight ...
Apr. 10, 2025 — A study showed that different processing methods significantly affect the biochemical composition of plant-based foods. Current food classification ...
Apr. 14, 2025 — Identifying a key protein's role could improve the common mental health medications and point to new treatments for inflammation-related diseases, a ...
Apr. 14, 2025 — Neural networks are one typical structure on which artificial intelligence can be based. The term neural describes their learning ability, which to some extent mimics the functioning of neurons in ...
Apr. 11, 2025 — A team of researchers reported the first direct observation of a surprising quantum phenomenon predicted over half a century ago known as a superradiant phase transition, which occurs when two groups ...
Apr. 11, 2025 — Engineers have made bacteria to produce hyperspectral signals that can be detected as far as 90 meters away. Their work could lead to the development of bacterial sensors for agricultural and other ...
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Apr. 14, 2025 — A team discovers a new family of enzymes capable of inducing targeted cuts in single-stranded DNA A few years ago, the advent of technology known as CRISPR was a major breakthrough in the scientific ...
Apr. 10, 2025 — Why do problems occur with a special variant of 'protein glues', the split inteins, that severely limit their use in producing proteins? A team has now answered this ...
Apr. 10, 2025 — A new study using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) reveals the neural mechanisms that contribute to urinary incontinence, a common condition affecting stroke survivors that has a ...
Apr. 9, 2025 — This handheld device is the first that can detect tuberculosis in saliva, in addition to blood and sputum samples, an important breakthrough for testing children and HIV patients, who struggle to ...
Apr. 9, 2025 — Researchers analyzed trade-related risks to energy security across 1,092 scenarios for cutting carbon emissions by 2060. They found that swapping out dependence on imported fossil fuels for increased ...
Apr. 9, 2025 — Cancer diagnoses traditionally require invasive or labor-intensive procedures such as tissue biopsies. Now, research reveals a method that uses pulsed infrared light to identify molecular profiles in ...
Apr. 9, 2025 — Wear and tear on plastic products releases small to nearly invisible plastic particles, which could impact people's health when consumed or inhaled. To make these particles biodegradable, ...
Apr. 9, 2025 — Iron and its alloys, such as steel and cast iron, dominate the modern world, and there's growing demand for iron-derived products. Traditionally, blast furnaces transform iron ore into purified ...
Apr. 9, 2025 — American Sign Language (ASL) recognition systems often struggle with accuracy due to similar gestures, poor image quality and inconsistent lighting. To address this, researchers developed a system ...
Apr. 9, 2025 — A research team has developed an advanced delivery system that transports gene-editing tools based on the CRISPR/Cas9 gene-editing system into living cells with significantly greater efficiency than ...
Apr. 9, 2025 — 'Forever chemicals' are everywhere. But only a handful have been evaluated for potentially toxic effects. Researchers think there may be a faster, cheaper way to figure out which ones might ...
Apr. 8, 2025 — Scientists have pioneered an influenza virus vector-based nasal spray vaccine platform and developed a nasal spray H5N1 avian influenza vaccine. During the early COVID-19 pandemic, this platform ...
Apr. 8, 2025 — A new way to watch catalytic reactions happen at the molecular level in real time could lead to better fundamental understanding and planning of the important reactions used in countless ...
Apr. 7, 2025 — A study reveals that termites are not simply spreading through natural processes, suggesting humans may be helping them 'conquer the world' by unknowingly transporting them aboard private ...
Apr. 7, 2025 — The world is littered with trillions of micro- and nanoscopic pieces of plastic. These can be smaller than a virus -- just the right size to disrupt cells and even alter DNA. Researchers find them ...
Apr. 7, 2025 — A web platform uses a chatbot to enable any chemist -- including undergraduate chemistry majors -- to configure and execute complex quantum mechanical simulations through ...
Apr. 4, 2025 — A chemical reaction that's vital to a range of commercial and industrial goods may soon be initiated more effectively and less ...
Apr. 4, 2025 — Quantum states can only be prepared and observed under highly controlled conditions. A research team has now succeeded in creating so-called hot Schrodinger cat states in a superconducting microwave ...
Apr. 4, 2025 — Collaborative research defines a novel approach to understanding how certain proteins called transcription factors determine which genetic programs will drive cell growth and maturation. The method, ...
Apr. 4, 2025 — Researchers from chemistry, biology, and medicine are increasingly turning to AI models to develop new hypotheses. However, it is often unclear on which basis the algorithms come to their conclusions ...
Monday, April 14, 2025
Thursday, April 10, 2025
- Research Team Improves Method for Producing Designer Proteins
- Key Brain Networks Behind Post-Stroke Urinary Incontinence Identified
Wednesday, April 9, 2025
- A New Smartphone-Sized Device Can Test for Tuberculosis: Here's Why That Matters for Children
- Decarbonization Improves Energy Security for Most Countries
- Finding Cancer's 'fingerprints'
- Starch-Based Microplastics Could Cause Health Risks in Mice
- A Step Toward Cleaner Iron Extraction Using Electricity
- Engineers Bring Sign Language to 'life' Using AI to Translate in Real-Time
- Engineering Smart Delivery for Gene Editors
- 'Forever Chemicals' Are Everywhere: Most of Their Health Effects Are Unknown
Tuesday, April 8, 2025
- Nasal Spray H5N1 Avian Influenza Vaccine Developed
- Researchers Watch a Single Catalytic Grain Do Work in Real Time
Monday, April 7, 2025
- Termite Stowaways: Study Reveals Boats as Perfect Vessels for Global Termite Spread
- Researchers Discover Why Plastic Sheds Dangerous Fragments
- Chatbot Opens Computational Chemistry to Nonexperts
Friday, April 4, 2025
- Researchers Improve Chemical Reaction That Underpins Products from Foods to Fuels
- Hot Schrödinger Cat States Created
- Novel Genomic Screening Tool Enables Precision Reverse-Engineering of Genetic Programming in Cells
- How Can Science Benefit from AI? Risks?
Thursday, April 3, 2025
- 3-D Printed Skin to Replace Animal Testing
- Nurture More Important Than Nature for Robotic Hand
- Revealing Capillaries and Cells in Living Organs With Ultrasound
- Carbon Capture Could Become Practical With Scalable, Affordable Materials
- Solar Cells Made of Moon Dust Could Power Future Space Exploration
Wednesday, April 2, 2025
- Researchers Use 'smart' Bomb Therapy to Destroy Breast Cancer
- Researchers Explore Using Soil for Heat Storage
- Electrochemical Process Separates Valuable Industrial Chemicals from Animal Waste
- Scientists Merge Two 'impossible' Materials Into New Artificial Structure
Tuesday, April 1, 2025
- Enhancing Light Control With Complex Frequency Excitations
- Diagnosing a Dud May Lead to a Better Battery
- We Know Nanoplastics Are a Threat -- This New Tool Can Help Us Figure out Just How Bad They Are
Monday, March 31, 2025
- Scientists Pioneer Method to Tackle 'forever Chemicals'
- Chance Discovery Improves Stability of Bioelectronic Material Used in Medical Implants, Computing and Biosensors
Friday, March 28, 2025
- Physicists Use Quantum Entanglement to Crack Mystery of Strange Metals
- Artificial Neurons Organize Themselves
- New Approach Makes One Type of Clean Fuel Production 66% More Efficient
Thursday, March 27, 2025
- Breakthrough Copper Alloy Achieves Unprecedented High-Temperature Performance
- Physicists Discover a Copper-Free High-Temperature Superconducting Oxide
- Microbial Cell Factories for Sustainable Chemical Production
- A Lighter, Smarter Magnetoreceptive Electronic Skin
- Terahertz Imaging: Breakthrough in Non-Invasive Cochlear Visualization
- Feeling the Future: New Wearable Tech Simulates Realistic Touch
Wednesday, March 26, 2025
- Cleaning Microplastics
- Making Sturdy, Semi-Transparent Wood With Cheap, Natural Materials
- Cleverly Designed Carbon Nanohoop Enables Controlled Release of Iron
Tuesday, March 25, 2025
- Engineering Antibodies With a Novel Fusion Protein
- Eco-Friendly, Nylon-Like Plastic Using Microorganisms
- New Type of Quantum Computer Studies the Dance of Elementary Particles
- Using Cover Plants to Remove Pollutants from Arable Soil
- The Evolution of Low-Temperature Adapted Enzymes
- Listen to Quantum Atoms Talk Together Thanks to Acoustics
- Making Foie Gras Without Force-Feeding
- VR Crime Scene Tech
Monday, March 24, 2025
- 3D Nanotech Blankets Offer New Path to Clean Drinking Water
- Engineers Develop a Better Way to Deliver Long-Lasting Drugs
- Scientists Engineer Starfish Cells to Shape-Shift in Response to Light
Friday, March 21, 2025
- Groundbreaking Light-Driven Method to Create Key Drug Compounds
- New Machine Learning Framework Enhances Precision and Efficiency in Metal 3D Printing, Advancing Sustainable Manufacturing
- Researchers Create Eco-Friendly Detergent from Wood Fiber and Corn Protein
Thursday, March 20, 2025
- Green Recipe: Engineered Yeast Boosts D-Lactic Acid Production
- New CRISPR Tool Enables More Seamless Gene Editing -- And Improved Disease Modeling
- Producing Nuclear Fusion Fuel Is Banned in the US for Being Too Toxic, but These Researchers Found an Alternative
Wednesday, March 19, 2025
- Shaping the Future of Diabetes Treatment With 3D Bioprinting Technology
- Plant Patch Can Detect Stress Signals in Real Time
- New Material for Efficient Separation of Deuterium at Elevated Temperatures
- EPA Regulations Cut Power Sector Emissions but Miss Opportunities for Deeper Reductions
- Squirrel-Inspired Leaping Robot Can Stick a Landing on a Branch
Tuesday, March 18, 2025
- 'Democratizing Chemical analysis':Chemists Use Machine Learning and Robotics to Identify Chemical Compositions from Images
- Web Search Formulas Offer a First Step for Protecting Critical Infrastructure
- Lords of the Molecular Rings: An Innovative Shortcut to High-Performance Organic Materials
- To Overcome Antibiotic Resistance, New Research Says to Let It Flow
- Reusing Old Oil and Gas Wells May Offer Green Energy Storage Solution
- Revolutionary Blueprint to Fuse Wireless Technologies and AI
- Eco-Friendly Method to Efficiently Convert Methane to Ethanol
Monday, March 17, 2025
- Direct Evidence Revealed for Rare Pulsing Pear-Shapes in Gadolinium Nuclei
- RNA Origami: Artificial Cytoskeletons to Build Synthetic Cells
- Newly Identified Bacterial Protein Helps Design Cancer Drug Delivery System
- Structure of Supercritical Water Decoded
- Artificial Muscle Flexes in Multiple Directions, Offering a Path to Soft, Wiggly Robots
- Good Fences Make Good Neighbors (With Carnivores)
Friday, March 14, 2025
Thursday, March 13, 2025
- How Chemistry and Force Etch Mysterious Spiral Patterns on Solid Surfaces
- Spinning, Twisted Light Could Power Next-Generation Electronics
- New CRISPRs Expand Upon the Original's Abilities
Wednesday, March 12, 2025
- Robotics and Spinal Stimulation Restore Movement in Paralysis
- Scientists Develop Solar-Powered Method to Convert Sewage Sludge Into Green Hydrogen and Animal Feed
- Promising New Research Shows Potential to Cure Recurrent Urinary Tract Infections
- Catching Aromaticity in the Act: Direct Real-Time Tracking of How 'excited-State Aromaticity' Drives Molecular Shape Changes
Tuesday, March 11, 2025
- Cheap and Environmentally Friendly -- The Next Generation LEDs May Soon Be Here
- Molecular Motors in Action: Visualizing Alpha-Cyclodextrin Movement Along Polymer Chains
- Scientists Discover Smart Way to Generate Energy With Tiny Beads
- Researchers Unveil Comprehensive Zeolite Structures, Advancing Development of Catalysts for Petrochemical and Renewable Energy
- Untangling Quantum Entanglement With New Calculation Formulas
Monday, March 10, 2025
- The Two Faces of Liquid Water
- X-Ray Snapshot: How Light Bends an Active Substance
- Unlocking the Secrets of Phase Transitions in Quantum Hardware